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Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition.
Title:
Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition.
Author:
Nowell, April.
ISBN:
9781607320319
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- 1: Introduction and Overview -- 2: "Grammars of Action" and Stone Flaking Design Space -- 3: Insights on the Technical Competence of the Early Oldowan -- 4: Growing Up in the Middle Pleistocene -- 5: How Levallois Reduction Is Similar to, and Not Similar to, Playing Chess -- 6: On Standardization in the Paleolithic -- 7: Middle Stone Age Stone Tools from Klasies River Main Site and Symbolic Cognition -- 8: Possible Relations between Language and Technology in Human Evolution -- 9: Stone Tools and the Evolution of Hominin and Human Cognition -- 10: Current Developments in Inferring Cognitive Capabilities from the Archaeological Traces Left by Stone Tools -- Contributors -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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