Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition /

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Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2010.
Description:viii, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8050341
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Other authors / contributors:Nowell, April, 1969-
Davidson, Iain, 1948-
ISBN:9781607320302 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1607320304 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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