Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition [[electronic resource] /] / edited by April Nowell and Iain Davidson

• Pubblicazione: Boulder, Colo., : University Press of Colorado, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1/0285
• Soggetto topico: Stone implements; Tools, Prehistoric; Cognition and culture; Human behavior
• Altri autori: NowellApril <1969-> DavidsonIain <1948->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition
• ISBN: 1-60732-031-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791488203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II