Stone tools in human evolution : behavioral differences among technological primates / John J. Shea, Anthropology Department, Stony Brook University.

Author
Shea, John J. (John Joseph) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge, [2017]
Description
xix, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

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    "In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that seen among living non-human primates, to a uniquely human pattern of obligatory tool use. Examining how the lithic archaeological record changed over the course of human evolution, he compares tool use by living humans and non-human primates and predicts how the archaeological stone tool evidence should have changed as distinctively human behaviors evolved. Those behaviors include using cutting tools, logistical mobility (carrying things), language and symbolic artifacts, geographic dispersal and diaspora, and residential sedentism (living in the same place for prolonged periods). Shea then tests those predictions by analyzing the archaeological lithic record from 6,500 years ago to 3.5 million years ago."--Publisher's description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.
    Contents
    • What we think we know about stone tools
    • Describing stone tools
    • Stone cutting tools
    • Logistical mobility
    • Language and symbolic artifacts
    • Dispersal and diaspora
    • Residential sedentism.
    ISBN
    • 9781107123090
    • 1107123097
    • 9781107554931 ((paperback))
    • 1107554934 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016028973
    OCLC
    956583814
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