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Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition by Nowell, April; Davidson, Iain is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition about?
Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 1: Introduction and Overview 12 2: “Grammars of Action” and Stone Flaking Design Space 24 3: Insights on the Technical Competence of the Early Oldowan 56 4: Growing Up in the Middle Pleistocene 78 5: How Levallois Reduction Is Similar to, and Not Similar to, Playing Chess 94 6: On Standardization in the Paleolithic 116 7: Middle Stone Age Stone Tools from Klasies River Main Site and Symbolic Cognition 146 8: Possible Relations between Language and Technology in Human Evolution 170 9: Stone Tools and the Evolution of Hominin and Human Cognition 196 10: Current Developments in Inferring Cognitive Capabilities from the Archaeological Traces Left by Stone Tools 218 Contributors 238 Index 240 Publisher:University Press of Colorado,Published:2010,ISBN:9781607320319,Related ISBN:9781607320302,Language:English,OCLC:664571206 Stone tools are the most durable and common type of archaeological remain and one of the most important sources of information about behaviors of early hominins. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition develops methods for examining questions of cognition, demonstrating the progression of mental capabilities from early hominins
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nowell, April; Davidson, Iain
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781607320319
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Technology, Science