Stone tools in human evolution : behavioral differences among technological primates /
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| Author / Creator: | Shea, John J. (John Joseph), author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | xix, 236 pages ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10924972 |
| Summary: | 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 residential sedentism (living in the same place for prolonged periods). Shea then tests those predictions by analyzing the archaeological lithic record from 6,500 years ago to 3.5 million years ago. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 236 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107123090 1107123097 9781107554931 1107554934 |
