Stone Tools and Fossil Bones: Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins

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Edited by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2012
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781139149327
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139149327

Subjects:: Prehistory, Archaeology, Archaeological Science

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The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret how early hominins lived, foraged, behaved and communicated and how early and modern humans evolved. In this book, an international team of archaeologists and primatologists examines early Stone Age tools and bones and uses scientific methods to test alternative hypotheses that explain the archaeological record. By focusing on both lithics and faunal records, this volume presents the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.

'This volume has a good feel to it - a handsome compact book about the early archaeology of human evolution, all in one … This collection is stimulating in reflecting a strong hand, but also showing a plurality of contributions and opinions.'

John Gowlett Source: Journal of African Archaeology

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Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins

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Stone Tools and Fossil Bones - Half title page
pp i-ii

Stone Tools and Fossil Bones - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Tables
pp ix-x

Figures
pp xi-xii

Contributors
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-10

Chapter 1 - Toward a scientific-realistic theory on the origin of human behavior
pp 11-44

Part i - Onthe Use of Analogy I: The Earliest Meat Eaters
pp 45-198

Chapter 2 - Conceptualpremises in experimental design and their bearing on the use of analogy: A critical example from experiments on cut marks
pp 47-79

Chapter 3 - The use of bone surface modificationsto model hominid lifeways during the Oldowan
pp 80-114

Chapter 4 - On earlyhominin meat eating and carcass acquisition strategies: Still relevant after all these years?
pp 115-151

Chapter5 - Meat foraging by Pleistocene African hominins: Tracking behavioral evolution beyond baseline inferences ofearly access to carcasses
pp 152-173

Chapter 6 - Can weuse chimpanzeebehavior to model early hominin hunting?
pp 174-198

Part II - Onthe use of analogy II: The earliest stone toolmakers
pp 199-358

Chapter 7 - The origins of the Oldowan: Why chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) still are good models for technological evolution in Africa
pp 201-221

Chapter 8 - Whatdoes Oldowan technology represent in terms of hominin behavior?
pp 222-244

Chapter 9 - Testing cognitive skills in Early Pleistocene hominins: An analysis of the concepts of hierarchization and predeterminationin the lithic assemblages of TypeSection (Peninj, Tanzania)
pp 245-309

Chapter 10 - The Early Acheulean inAfrica: Past paradigms, current ideas, and future directions
pp 310-358

Index
pp 359-362

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