Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition /

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Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283317
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Other authors / contributors:Nowell, April, 1969- editor.
Davidson, Iain, 1948- editor.
ISBN:9781607320319
1607320312
9781607320302
1607320304
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Other form:Print version: Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition. Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2010 9781607320302
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Table of Contents:
  • "Grammars of action" and stone flaking design space / Mark W. Moore
  • Insights on the technical competence of the early Oldowan / Ignacio de la Torre
  • Growing up in the Middle Pleistocene : life history strategies and their relationship to Acheulian industries / April Nowell and Mark White
  • How Levallois reduction is similar to, and not similar to, playing chess / Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge
  • On standardization in the Paleolithic : measures, causes, and interpretations of metric similarity in stone tools / Steven L. Kuhn
  • Middle Stone Age tools from Klasies River main site and symbolic cognition / Sarah Wurz
  • Possible relationshion between language and technology in human evolution / Dietrich Stout
  • Stone tools and the evolution of hominin and human cognition / Iain Davidson
  • Current developments in inferring cognitive capabilties from the archaeological traces left by stone tools : caught bwetween a rock and a hard inference / Philip J. Barnard.