Holloway's "Imposition of Arbitrary Form on the Environment", or a Unique Kind of Anticipation as the Onset of Cultural Humanisation

In this exposition attention is drawn to a fifty years old article of Ralph Holloway, the content of which is insufficiently known outside the discipline of anthropology. Holloway observes that the standardized form of the earliest stone tool artefacts, exposes a turning point in cognitive organisation of the hominid species. The arbitrary form can be understood as the introduction of the concept of "object" and the act of projection itself implicates a cognitive posture of taking distance. The latter could as well be understooda s anticipation.

Apart of drawing attention to this most interesting point of view, some critical questions and remarks are also formulated.