Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa - A Guide

Informationen zum Autor John J. Shea is Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, New York. He is the author of Stone Tools in Human Evolution (Cambridge, 2016) and Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic of the Near East: A Guide (Cambridge, 2012). Klappentext A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record. Zusammenfassung This first book about stone tools written specifically for Eastern African archaeology by an expert stoneworker! teaches students how to 'read' stone tools and guides archaeologists in how to identify and measure them. Written with humor and richly illustrated! it covers the full sweep of Eastern Africa's 3.4 million-year-long prehistory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Stone tools: essential terms and concepts; 3. How to read stone tools; 4. Eastern Africa; 5. The Eastern African lithic record; 6. Cores and tools; 7. Flakes/detached pieces; 8. Retouched pieces; 9. Percussors and groundstone artifacts; 10. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: John Shea, John J Shea, John J. Shea
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108424431
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42443-1
• No. of pages: 317
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; prehistory, Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, African History, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology