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The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

ArchaeologyGeneral SociologyHistoriography

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ISBN10: 0367140543
ISBN13: 9780367140540
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 15 2020
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers.

Members of the human lineage have been producing stone tools for more than 3 million years. These artefacts provide key evidence for important evolutionary developments in hominin behaviour and cognition. Avoiding conventional approaches based on progressive stages of development, this book instead examines global trends in six separate dimensions of technological behaviour between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago. Combining these independent trends results in both a broader and a more finely punctuated perspective on key intervals of change in hominin behaviour. To draw this picture together, the concluding section explores behavioural, cognitive, and demographic implications of developments in material culture and technological procedures at seven key intervals during the Pleistocene.

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