CiNii Books - The evolution of Paleolithic technologies

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. Researchers interested in Paleolithic archaeology will find this book invaluable. It will also be of interest to archaeologists researching stone tool technology and to students of human evolution and behavioural change in prehistory.

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Thinking about technological evolution
Chapter 3: Parts and wholes
Chapter 4. Raw material economies
Chapter 5: Artefacts as information
Chapter 6: Identifying design
Chapter 7: Diversity
Chapter 8: Artefact complexity
Chapter 9: Synthesis - trends, tendencies and entrenchments

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