Stone Tools and Fossil Bones (eBook, PDF)

Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins
Redaktion: Dominguez-Rodrigo, Manuel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret how early hominins lived, foraged, behaved and communicated and how early and modern humans evolved. In this book, an international team of archaeologists and primatologists examines early Stone Age tools and bones and uses scientific methods to test alternative hypotheses that explain the archaeological record. By focusing on both lithics and faunal records, this volume presents the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139335379
• Artikelnr.: 38276180

Inhaltsangabe

1. Towards a scientific-realistic theory on the origin of human behavior
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo; Part I. On the Use of Analogy I: The Earliest
Meat-Eaters: 2. Conceptual premises in experimental design and their
bearing on the use of analogy: a critical example from experiments on cut
marks Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo; 3. The use of bone surface modifications to
model hominid lifeways during the Oldowan Charles P. Egeland; 4. On early
hominin meat-eating and carcass acquisition strategies: still relevant
after all these years? Karen D. Lupo; 5. Meat-foraging by Pleistocene
African hominins: tracking behavioral evolution beyond baseline inferences
of early access to carcasses Travis Rayne Pickering and Henry T. Bunn; 6.
Can we use chimpanzee behavior to model early hominin hunting? Travis Rayne
Pickering and Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo; Part II. On the Use of Analogy II:
The Earliest Stone Tool Makers: 7. The origins of the Oldowan: why are
chimpanzees (pan troglodytes) still good models for the technological
evolution in Africa? Susana Carvalho and William McGrew; 8. What does
Oldowan technology represent in terms of hominin behavior? David R. Braun;
9. Testing cognitive skills in early Pleistocene hominins: an analysis of
the concepts of hierarchization and predetermination in the lithic
assemblages of type section (Peninj, Tanzania) Fernando Diez-Martín,
Policarpo Sánchez Yustos, Javier Baena, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and Daniel
Rubio; 10. The early Acheulean in Africa: past paradigms, current ideas,
and future directions Fernando Diez-Martin and Metin I. Eren.