Studies on the Tool-using and Ranging Patterns of Early Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Author: Yuki Kimura
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 638
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan
Author: Erella Hovers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-03-08
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1402090609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins’ ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The appearance of stone tools has often been viewed as a threshold event, impacting directly and profoundly the later course of cultural and social evolution. Alternatively, it has been understood as a prelude to significant succeeding changes in behavioral, social and biological evolution of hominins. This book presents a series of recent enquiries into the technological and adaptive significance of Oldowan stone tools. While anchored in a long research tradition, these studies rely on recent discoveries and innovative analyses of the archaeological record of ca. 2.6–1.0 million years ago in Africa and Eurasia, dealing with the earliest lithic industries as manifestations of hominin adaptations and as expressions of hominin cognitive abilities.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 572
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Author: William C. McGrew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-07-28
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521555364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) are our closest living relatives, sharing a common ancestor only five million years ago. We also share key features such as high intelligence, omnivorous diets, prolonged child-rearing and rich social lives. The great apes show a surprising diversity of adaptations, particularly in social life, ranging from the solitary life of orangutans, through patriarchy in gorillas to complex but different social organisations in bonobos and chimpanzees. As great apes are so close to humans, comparisons yield essential knowledge for modelling human evolutionary origins. Great Ape Societies provides comprehensive up-to-date syntheses of work on all four species, drawing on decades of international field work, zoo and laboratory studies. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in primatology, anthropology, psychology and human evolution.
The Use of Tools by Human and Non-human Primates
Author: Arlette Berthelet
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBecause of their vital role in the emergence of humanity, tools and their uses have been the focus of considerable worldwide study. This volume brings together international research on the use of tools among primates and both prehistoric and modern humans. The book represents leading work being done by specialists in anatomy, neurobiology, prehistory, ethnology, and primatology. Whether composed of stone, wood, or metal, tools are a prolongation of the arm that acquire precision through direction by the brain. The same movement, for example, may have been practiced by apes and humans, but the resulting action varies according to the extended use of the tool. It is therefore necessary, as the contributors here make clear, to understand the origin of tools, and also to describe the techniques involved in their manipulation, and the possible uses of unknown implements. Comparison of the techniques of chimpanzees with those of prehistoric and modern peoples has made it possible to appreciate the common aspects and to identify the differences. The transmission of ability has also been studied in the various relevant societies: chimpanzees in their natural habitat and in captivity, hunter-gatherers, and workmen in prehistoric and in modern times. In drawing together much valuable research, this work will be an important and timely resource for social and behavioral psychologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and animal behaviorists.
Variability in the Foraging Behavior of Early Homo
Author: Christopher M. Monahan
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 494
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Author: G. N. Bailey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-06-12
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521257732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArticles by John Clegg and Isabel McBryde annotated separately.
Early-Middle Pleistocene Transitions
Author: Geological Society of London
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781862391819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Early-Middle Pleistocene transition (around 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) marks a profound shift in Earth's climate state. Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part of the Pleistocene, gave way progressively to a 100 ka rhythm of increased amplitude that characterizes our present glacial-interglacial world. This volume assesses the biotic and physical response to this transition both on land and in the oceans: indeed it examines the very nature of Quaternary climate change. Milankovitch theory, palaeoceanography using isotopes and microfossils, marine organic geochemistry, tephrochronology, the record of loess and soil deposition, terrestrial vegetational change, and the migration and evolution of hominins as well as other large and small mammals, are all considered. These themes combine to explore the very origins of our present biota.
The Oldowan
Author: Kathy Diane Schick
Publisher: Stone Age Institute Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human lineage. The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age provides a critical look at early archaeological sites and their evidence. This volume also shows how a range of probing, multidisciplinary, experimental investigations - including experimental tool-making, comparative studies of ape technologies, biomechanical analysis, and PET studies of brain activity - help us evaluate this tantalizing prehistoric evidence and appreciate its relevance to human evolution.
Stone Tools and Fossil Bones
Author: Manuel Domínguez-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.
