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The Oldowan : case studies into the earliest Stone Age / edited by Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick.
Penn Museum Library GN772.42.T34 O53 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Stone Age Institute publication series ; 1.
- Stone Age Institute publication series ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stone age--Africa.
- Stone age.
- Prehistoric peoples--Africa.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Tools, Prehistoric--Analysis.
- Tools, Prehistoric.
- Africa.
- Human evolution.
- Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)--Antiquities.
- Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania).
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gosport, IN. : Stone Age Institute, [2006]
- Summary:
- The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human lineage. This volume provides a critical look at early archaeological sites and their evidence. It also shows how a range of probing, multidisciplinary, experimental investigations - including experimental tool-making, comparative studies of ape technologies, biome-chanical analysis, and PET studies of brain activity - help us evaluate this tantalizing prehistoric evidence and appreciate its relevance to human evolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0979227607
- 9780979227608
- OCLC:
- 144645362
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