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Author: John J. Shea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1107123097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.
Author: April Nowell
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Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStone tools are the most durable and common type of archaeological remain and one of the most important sources of information about behaviors of early hominins. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition develops methods for examining questions of cognition, demonstrating the progression of mental capabilities from early hominins to modern humans through the archaeological record. Dating as far back as 2.5-2.7 million years ago, stone tools were used in cutting up animals, woodworking, and preparing vegetable matter. Today, lithic remains give archaeologists insight into the forethought, planning, and enhanced working memory of our early ancestors. Contributors focus on multiple ways in which archaeologists can investigate the relationship between tools and the evolving human mind-including joint attention, pattern recognition, memory usage, and the emergence of language. Offering a wide range of approaches and diversity of place and time, the chapters address issues such as skill, social learning, technique, language, and cognition based on lithic technology. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition will be of interest to Paleolithic archaeologists and paleoanthropologists interested in stone tool technology and cognitive evolution.
Author: Kathy D. Schick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1994-02-03
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0671875388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest tool-making humans, two leading anthropologists reveal how the first technologies-- stone, wood, and bone tools-- forever changed the course of human evolution. Drawing on two decades of fieldwork around the world, authors Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth take readers on an eye-opening journey into humankind's distant past-- traveling from the savannahs of East Africa to the plains of northern China and the mountains of New Guinea-- offering a behind-the-scenes look at the discovery, excavation, and interpretation of early prehistoric sites. Based on the authors' unique mix of archaeology and practical experiments, ranging from making their own stone tools to theorizing about the origins of human intelligence, "Making Silent Stones Speak" brings the latest ideas about human evolution to life.
Author: John J. Shea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-28
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1107006988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010-04-17
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0309148383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the emergence of Homo sapiens, tools, and culture. The Earth's geological record suggests that some evolutionary events were coincident with substantial changes in African and Eurasian climate, raising the possibility that critical junctures in human evolution and behavioral development may have been affected by the environmental characteristics of the areas where hominins evolved. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution explores the opportunities of using scientific research to improve our understanding of how climate may have helped shape our species. Improved climate records for specific regions will be required before it is possible to evaluate how critical resources for hominins, especially water and vegetation, would have been distributed on the landscape during key intervals of hominin history. Existing records contain substantial temporal gaps. The book's initiatives are presented in two major research themes: first, determining the impacts of climate change and climate variability on human evolution and dispersal; and second, integrating climate modeling, environmental records, and biotic responses. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil sites and to broaden the geographic and temporal sampling of the fossil and archeological record; a comprehensive and integrative scientific drilling program in lakes, lake bed outcrops, and ocean basins surrounding the regions where hominins evolved and a major investment in climate modeling experiments for key time intervals and regions that are critical to understanding human evolution.
Author: Steven L. Kuhn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-14
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 1317281764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the human lineage have been producing stone tools for more than 3 million years. These artefacts provide key evidence for important evolutionary developments in hominin behaviour and cognition. Avoiding conventional approaches based on progressive stages of development, this book instead examines global trends in six separate dimensions of technological behaviour between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago. Combining these independent trends results in both a broader and a more finely punctuated perspective on key intervals of change in hominin behaviour. To draw this picture together, the concluding section explores behavioural, cognitive, and demographic implications of developments in material culture and technological procedures at seven key intervals during the Pleistocene. Researchers interested in Paleolithic archaeology will find this book invaluable. It will also be of interest to archaeologists researching stone tool technology and to students of human evolution and behavioural change in prehistory.
Author: Manuel DomÃnguez-Rodrigo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-26
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1107022924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.
Author: Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09-22
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1107082102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the insights that fossil hominin teeth provide about human evolution, linking findings with current debates in palaeoanthropology.
Author: John J. Shea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-04-16
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1108424430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.
Author: Andrew Shryock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-11-07
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0520270282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis breakthrough book brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more.
