Stone tools in human evolution: behavioral differences among technological primates

by Shea, John J., (John Joseph)

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Full title :Stone tools in human evolution : behavioral differences among technological primates / John J. Shea, Anthropology Department, Stony Brook University.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781316389355, 1316389359
oclc:ocn961922168
LC Classification:GN799.T6
Dewey Decimal:930.1/2

What we think we know about stone tools -- Describing stone tools -- Stone cutting tools -- Logistical mobility -- Language and symbolic artifacts -- Dispersal and diaspora -- Residential sedentism.