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Stone Tools in Human Evolution Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates 1st Edition by John J Shea ISBN 1107123097 9781107123090

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Author(s): John J. Shea

ISBN(s): 9781107554931, 9781107123090, 1107554934, 1107123097, 2016028973

Edition: Illustrated

File Details: PDF, 13.24 MB

Year: 2016

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 1107123097
ISBN 13: 9781107123090
Author: John J Shea

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.

Stone Tools in Human Evolution Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Little Questions vs. Big Questions
Why Archaeologists Misunderstand Stone Tools

Chapter 2: How We Know What We Think We Know about Stone Tools
Sources of Information about Lithic Technology
A Pre-industrial Model of Lithic Technology
Non-human Primate Stone Tool Use

Chapter 3: Describing Stone Tools
Essential Terms and Concepts
Inessential Terms and Concepts
A New Descriptive Framework

Chapter 4: Stone Cutting Tools
Stone Tools as Artificial Teeth/Nails
The Plio-Pleistocene Evidence
Stone Cutting Tools: Predictions Evaluated

Chapter 5: Logistical Mobility
Residential vs. Logistical Mobility
Early–Middle Pleistocene Evidence
Logistical Mobility and Stone Tools: Predictions Evaluated

Chapter 6: Language and Symbolic Artifacts
Language vs. Non-human Primate Communication
The Middle–Late Pleistocene Evidence
Language and Symbolic Artifacts: Predictions Evaluated

Chapter 7: Dispersal and Diaspora
Diaspora vs. Endemism
The Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Evidence
Diaspora and Stone Tools: Predictions Evaluated

Chapter 8: Residential Sedentism
Sedentism vs. Mobility
The Southern Levant in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene: A Case Study
Residential Sedentism in the Levant: Predictions Evaluated

Chapter 9: Conclusion
Overview
Strategic Changes in Hominin Stone Tool Use
Concluding Thoughts