Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences Among Technological Primates - Paperback
by John J. Shea
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107554931ISBN-10:1107554934UPC:9781107554931Book Category:Social Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Archaeology, Anthropology, Life SciencesBook Topic:EvolutionSize:9.90 x 6.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC6SMR5AST
Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences Among Technological Primates
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107554931ISBN-10:1107554934UPC:9781107554931Book Category:Social Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Archaeology, Anthropology, Life SciencesBook Topic:EvolutionSize:9.90 x 6.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC6SMR5AST
Shea, John J.: - 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 ancestral technology skills...
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