John J Shea

Stone Tools in Human Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 267mm x 187mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9781107123090
• ISBN-10: 1107123097
• Artikelnr.: 45540417

Autorenporträt

John J. Shea is Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide (2013) and co-editor of Out of Africa 1: The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia (2010). Shea is also an expert flintknapper whose demonstrations of stone tool production and other ancestral technology skills appear in numerous television documentaries and in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, as well as in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Little questions vs big questions
1. Why archaeologists misunderstand stone tools
2. How we know what we think we know about stone tools
3. Describing stone tools
4. Stone cutting tools
5. Logistical mobility
6. Language and symbolic artifacts
7. Dispersal and diaspora
8. Residential sedentism
9. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Traditional age-stages and industries
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.