Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition
By: edited by April Nowell and Iain Davidson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781607320302
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Grammars of action" and stone flaking design space / Mark W. Moore; title: Insights on the technical competence of the early Oldowan / Ignacio de la Torre; title: Growing up in the Middle Pleistocene : life history strategies and their relationship to Acheulian industries / April Nowell and Mark White; title: How Levallois reduction is similar to, and not similar to, playing chess / Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge; title: On standardization in the Paleolithic : measures, causes, and interpretations of metric similarity in stone tools / Steven L. Kuhn; title: Middle Stone Age tools from Klasies River main site and symbolic cognition / Sarah Wurz; title: Possible relationshion between language and technology in human evolution / Dietrich Stout; title: Stone tools and the evolution of hominin and human cognition / Iain Davidson; title: 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.