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Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago, that technology took its first modern form and revolutionized our social and economic lives. The development of handles and shafts, which were added to some tools previously made of single materials and hand-held, made the tools not only more efficient but improved their makers' chances of survival by making the quest for food more productive. This volume brings together evidence for the cognitive, social, and technological foundations necessary for the development of hafting to form a speculative theory about this revolutionary innovation. The creation of tools with handles required considerable planning based on an expert understanding of the properties of the raw materials involved, a form of early engineering.
Tools, Prehistoric. --- Paleolithic period. --- Outils préhistoriques --- Paléolithique --- Outils préhistoriques --- Paléolithique --- Implements, Prehistoric --- Implements, utensils, etc., Prehistoric --- Prehistoric implements --- Prehistoric tools --- Eolithic period --- Old Stone age --- Palaeolithic period --- Stone age
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Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago. It is intended both as an introduction to this lithic evidence for students and as a resource for researchers working with Paleolithic and Neolithic stone tool evidence. Written by a lithic analyst and professional flintknapper, this book systematically examines variation in technology, typology, and industries for the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic; the Epipaleolithic; and Neolithic periods in the Near East. It is extensively illustrated with drawings of stone tools. In addition to surveying the lithic evidence, the book also considers ways in which archaeological treatment of this evidence could be changed to make it more relevant to major issues in human origins research. A final chapter shows how change in stone tool designs points to increasing human dependence on stone tools across the long sweep of Stone Age prehistory.
Outils de pierre --- Middle Eastx --- Paleolithic period --- Neolithic period --- Tools, Prehistoric --- Stone implements --- Antiquities. --- Paléolithique --- Néolithique --- Outils préhistoriques --- Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Antiquités --- Flint implements --- Lithic implements --- Implements, utensils, etc. --- Debitage --- Implements, Prehistoric --- Implements, utensils, etc., Prehistoric --- Prehistoric implements --- Prehistoric tools --- Eolithic period --- Old Stone age --- Palaeolithic period --- Stone age --- Social Sciences --- Archeology
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In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that it was the imaginative ability to 'go beyond' and to create societies where people lived apart yet stayed in touch that made us such effective world settlers. To make his case Gamble brings together information from a wide range of disciplines: psychology, cognitive science, archaeology, palaeoanthropology, archaeogenetics, geography, quaternary science and anthropology. He presents a novel deep history that combines the archaeological evidence for fossil hominins with the selective forces of Pleistocene climate change, engages with the archaeogeneticists' models for population dispersal and displacement, and ends with the Europeans' rediscovery of the deep history settlement of the Earth.
Prehistoric peoples. --- Cognition and culture. --- Social evolution. --- Paleolithic period. --- Anthropology, Prehistoric. --- Prehistoric anthropology --- Eolithic period --- Old Stone age --- Palaeolithic period --- Stone age --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Primitive societies
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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological geology --- Paleolithic period --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Stone implements --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Géoarchéologie --- Paléolithique --- Antiquités préhistoriques --- Outils de pierre --- 902 --- 551.4 --- Archeologie --- Geomorphology. Study of the Earth's physical forms --- 551.4 Geomorphology. Study of the Earth's physical forms --- 902 Archeologie --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Géoarchéologie --- Paléolithique --- Antiquités préhistoriques --- Eolithic period --- Old Stone age --- Palaeolithic period --- Stone age --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Zonhoven (Belgium) --- Zonhoven, Belgium --- Antiquities. --- Fouilles archéologiques -- Belgique -- Zonhoven (Belgique) --- Géoarchéologie -- Belgique -- Zonhoven (Belgique) --- Industrie lithique -- Belgique -- Zonhoven (Belgique) --- Paléolithique -- Belgique -- Zonhoven (Belgique)
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