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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tools, Prehistoric.

Human evolution.

Social evolution.

Fossil hominids.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Stone Tools & Fossil Bones

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret how early hominins lived, foraged, behaved and communicated and how early and modern humans evolved. In this book, an international team of archaeologists and primatologists examines early Stone Age tools and bones and uses scientific methods to test alternative hypotheses that explain the archaeological record. By focusing on both lithics and faunal records, this volume presents the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.

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 [and others]

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-33452-2

1-107-23180-9

1-280-39422-6

9786613572141

1-139-33798-X

1-139-34043-3

1-139-34201-0

1-139-33711-4

1-139-33885-4

1-139-14932-6

OCLC:

792684410