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Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates
John J. Shea
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Description for Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates
paperback. An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence. Num Pages: 306 pages, 51 b/w illus. 26 tables. BIC Classification: HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 263 x 14. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107554931
SKU
V9781107554931
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About John J. Shea
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates
'A useful counterbalance to hidebound Paleolithic systematics, Stone Tools implements a better-grounded descriptive approach. It shows a way forward and therefore deserves close study.' Current Anthropology 'Designed for a readership of upper-division college and first-year archaeology graduate students (with 'boxes', plenty of line drawings, and a glossary of terms), but with a distinct message for all those who think about ... Read more