Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition /
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| Imprint: | Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2010. |
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| Description: | viii, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8050341 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction and Overview
- 2. "Grammars of Action" and Stone Flaking Design Space
- 3. Insights on the Technical Competence of the Early Oldowan
- 4. Growing Up in the Middle Pleistocene: Life History Strategies and Their Relationship to Acheulian Industries
- 5. How Levallois Reduction Is Similar to, and Not Similar to, Playing Chess
- 6. On Standardization in the Paleolithic: Measures, Causes, and Interpretations of Metric Similarity in Stone Tools
- 7. Middle Stone Age Stone Tools from Klasies River Main Site and Symbolic Cognition
- 8. Possible Relations between Language and Technology in Human Evolution
- 9. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Hominin and Human Cognition
- 10. Current Developments in Inferring Cognitive Capabilities from the Archaeological Traces Left by Stone Tools: Caught between a Rock and a Hard Inference
- List of Contributors
- Index