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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808200503321

Titolo

Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition / / edited by April Nowell and Iain Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colo., : University Press of Colorado, c2010

ISBN

1-60732-031-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NowellApril <1969->

DavidsonIain <1948->

Disciplina

930.1/0285

Soggetti

Stone implements

Tools, Prehistoric

Cognition and culture

Human behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Grammars of action" and stone flaking design space / Mark W. Moore -- Insights on the technical competence of the early Oldowan / Ignacio de la Torre -- Growing up in the Middle Pleistocene : life history strategies and their relationship to Acheulian industries / April Nowell and Mark White -- How Levallois reduction is similar to, and not similar to, playing chess / Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge -- On standardization in the Paleolithic : measures, causes, and interpretations of metric similarity in stone tools / Steven L. Kuhn -- Middle Stone Age tools from Klasies River main site and symbolic cognition / Sarah Wurz -- Possible relationshion between language and technology in human evolution / Dietrich Stout -- Stone tools and the evolution of hominin and human cognition / Iain Davidson -- Current developments in inferring cognitive capabilties from the archaeological traces left by stone tools : caught bwetween a rock and a hard inference / Philip J. Barnard.