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