Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
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
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
GN799.T6 S54 2017
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Tools, Prehistoric
[Browse]
Stone implements
[Browse]
Human evolution
[Browse]
Social evolution
[Browse]
Summary note
"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.
Show 4 more Contents items
ISBN
9781107123090
1107123097
9781107554931 ((paperback))
1107554934 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016028973
OCLC
956583814
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information