Stone tools and fossil bones : debates in the archaeology of human origins / Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tools, Prehistoric.

Human evolution.

Social evolution.

Fossil hominids.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

xiv, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, [2012]

Contents:

Toward a scientific-realistic theory on the origin of human behavior / Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

Conceptual premises in experimental design and their bearing on the use of analogy : a critical example from experiments on cut marks / Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

The use of bone surface modifications to model hominid lifeways during the Oldowan / Charles P. Egeland

On early hominin meat-eating and carcass acquisition strategies : still relevant after all these years? / Karen D. Lupo

Meat-foraging by Pleistocene African hominins : tracking behavioral evolution beyond baseline inferences of early access to carcasses / Travis Rayne Pickering and Henry T. Bunn

Can we use chimpanzee behavior to model early hominin hunting? / Travis Rayne Pickering and Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

The origins of the Oldowan : why chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) still are good models for technological evolution in Africa / Susana Carvalho and William McGrew

What does Oldowan technology represent in terms of hominin behavior? / David R. Braun

Testing cognitive skills in early Pleistocene hominins : an analysis of the concepts of hierarchization and predetermination in the lithic assemblages of type section (Peninj, Tanzania) / Fernando Diez-Martín ... [et al.]

The early Acheulean in Africa : past paradigms, current ideas, and future directions / Fernando Diez-Martín and Metin I. Eren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107022928

1107022924

OCLC:

757133688