Stone Tools in Human Evolution - Behavioral Differences Among Technological Primates

An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.

List of contents

List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Little questions vs big questions; 1. Why archaeologists misunderstand stone tools; 2. How we know what we think we know about stone tools; 3. Describing stone tools; 4. Stone cutting tools; 5. Logistical mobility; 6. Language and symbolic artifacts; 7. Dispersal and diaspora; 8. Residential sedentism; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Traditional age-stages and industries; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

John J. Shea is Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide (2013) and co-editor of Out of Africa 1: The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia (2010). Shea is also an expert flintknapper whose demonstrations of stone tool production and other ancestral technology skills appear in numerous television documentaries and in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, as well as in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.

Summary

This book explains in simple, straightforward terms what stone tools are, how and why they vary, and what that variability means for human evolution. It is a book about stone tools written for students and for non-archaeologists by an expert at making, using, and analyzing stone tools.

Product details

• Authors: John J Shea, John J. Shea, John J. (Stony Brook University Shea
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107554931
• ISBN: 978-1-107-55493-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology