Steven L. Kuhn

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on the long-term development of Paleolithic technologies and their makers, one that is more in keeping with contemporary Darwinian thinking about human evolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 233mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780367140540
• ISBN-10: 0367140543
• Artikelnr.: 59353820

Autorenporträt

Steven L. Kuhn is Riecker Distinguished Professor in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. He has conducted research on Paleolithic sites and stone artefacts in Turkey, Mediterranean Europe, the Levant, Morocco, and China. With his wife and frequent collaborator, Dr. Mary Stiner, Dr. Kuhn has also published on the evolution of human societies and symbolic behaviour during the Pleistocene.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Thinking about technological evolution
Chapter 3: Parts and wholes
Chapter 4. Raw material economies
Chapter 5: Artefacts as information
Chapter 6: Identifying design
Chapter 7: Diversity
Chapter 8: Artefact complexity
Chapter 9: Synthesis - trends, tendencies and entrenchments