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OverviewAn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Erella Hovers , David R. BraunPublisher: Springer Imprint: Springer Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009 Dimensions: Width: 21.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 0.447kg ISBN: 9789048180592ISBN 10: 9048180597 Pages: 164 Publication Date: 18 November 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAus den Rezensionen: ... Insgesamt spiegelt ein weit gespannter Bogen die Interdisziplinaritat der Palaoanthropologie im Spannungsfeld von Palaontologie, Anthropologie, Archaologie und OEkologie eindrucksvoll wider. Die Ergebnisse der Einzelbeitrage sind deshalb so interessant, da sie wegen des jungen Publikationsdatums noch keinen Eingang in Lehrbucher finden konnten. (H.-V. Karl, in: Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie Teil II, 2010, Issue 5/6, S. 1048 f.) "Aus den Rezensionen: ""... Insgesamt spiegelt ein weit gespannter Bogen die Interdisziplinaritat der Palaoanthropologie im Spannungsfeld von Palaontologie, Anthropologie, Archaologie und Okologie eindrucksvoll wider. Die Ergebnisse der Einzelbeitrage sind deshalb so interessant, da sie wegen des jungen Publikationsdatums noch keinen Eingang in Lehrbucher finden konnten."" (H.-V. Karl, in: Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie Teil II, 2010, Issue 5/6, S. 1048 f.)" Aus den Rezensionen: ! Insgesamt spiegelt ein weit gespannter Bogen die Interdisziplinaritat der Palaoanthropologie im Spannungsfeld von Palaontologie, Anthropologie, Archaologie und Okologie eindrucksvoll wider. Die Ergebnisse der Einzelbeitrage sind deshalb so interessant, da sie wegen des jungen Publikationsdatums noch keinen Eingang in Lehrbucher finden konnten. (H.-V. Karl, in: Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie Teil II, 2010, Issue 5/6, S. 1048 f.) Author InformationErella Hovers focuses on Oldowan and Middle Stone Age archaeology in Africa and on the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant. She is the co-editor (with Steve Kuhn) of ""Transitions Before the Tansition"" (Springer 2006) and the author of ""The Organization of Mousterian Lithic Technology in Qafzeh Cave, Israel"" (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009). She is a senior lecturer in the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jersualem. David R. Braun's research is centered on the relationship between around the earliest stone artifact behavior and the ecology of our earliest ancestors. His research is conducted in Kenya, South Africa and China. He is a lecturer in the department of archaeology in the University of Cape Town. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |