书目名称 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan |
编辑 | Erella Hovers,David R. Braun |
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概述 | Provides a unique perspective on early stone tool manufacture and use.Describes the earliest known assemblages and their significance in understanding processes of cultural evolution and change |
丛书名称 | Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology |
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描述 | .An 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. . |
出版日期 | Book 2009 |
关键词 | Kenya; Lithic technology; Meat eating; Oldowan; Paleoenvironment; Raw material selectivity; stone tools |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9060-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8059-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-9060-8Series ISSN 1877-9077 Series E-ISSN 1877-9085 |
issn_series | 1877-9077 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |