书目名称 | The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Volume II |
副标题 | Ancient Flames and C |
编辑 | Nira Alperson-Afil,Naama Goren-Inbar |
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概述 | The manipulation of fire by early hominins was a turning point in our evolutionary history.This volume features the first time record of controlled use of fire in Eurasia in the Acheulian culture as e |
丛书名称 | Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology |
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描述 | A View from Western Europe Most archaeologists would agree that the emergence of stone tool manufacture and the m- agement of fre are the two most signifcant events in the cultural evolution of early humans. The oldest known stone artifacts are securely dated to 2. 6–2. 5 Ma at several localities in Ethiopia; their association with ungulate remains and observations of cut marks prove that one of their main functions was for butchery (Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. 2005). The record of early stone tools from a number of sites in the time span 2. 5–2. 0 Ma is unequivocal; tool use and manufacture were a regular activity with evidence of planning, foresight and considerable technical skills (Delagnes and Roche 2005). In contrast, the timing of the human control of fre is not fully resolved and the antiquity of its habitual use has been debated until now. This book provides very strong evidence of the habitual use of fre by early humans at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (Israel). The sedimentary sequence at the site is 34 m thick, and it represents different depositional environments, mainly beaches along the margins of a paleo-lake. The Matuyama-Brunhes chron boundary, dated to |
出版日期 | Book 2010 |
关键词 | Acheulian; Ecology; Fire; Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov; Hearths; Spatial distribution; artifacts; environment; prehi |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3765-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-3206-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-3765-7Series ISSN 1877-9077 Series E-ISSN 1877-9085 |
issn_series | 1877-9077 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 |