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Author(s): Francesco d’Errico, Lucinda Backwell, (Editors)
ISBN(s): 9781868146376, 1868146375
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 129.36 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1868146375 
ISBN 13: 9781868146376
Author: Francesco D Errico, Lucinda Backwell

A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study. It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.

From Tools to Symbols From Early Hominids to Modern Humans 1st Table of contents:

Searching for common ground in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and genetics
The history of a special relationship: prehistoric terminology and lithic technology between the Fre
Essential attributes of any technologically competent animal
Significant tools and signifying monkeys: the question of body techniques and elementary actions on
Tools and brains: which came first?
Environmental changes and hominid evolution: what the vegetation tells us
Implications of the presence of African ape-like teeth in the Miocene of Kenya
Dawn of hominids: understanding the ape-hominid dichotomy
The impact of new excavations from the Cradle of Humankind on our understanding of the evolution of
Stone Age signatures in northernmost South Africa: early archaeology in the Mapungubwe National Park
Vertebral column, bipedalism and freedom of the hands
Characterising early Homo: cladistic, morphological and metrical analyses of the original Plio Pleis
Early Homo, ‘robust’ australopithecines and stone tools at Kromdraai, South Africa
The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid cultural traditions
Contribution of genetics to the study of human origins
An overview of the patterns of behavioural change in Africa and Eurasia during the Middle and Late P
From the tropics to the colder climates: contrasting faunal exploitation adaptations of modern human
New neighbours: interaction and image-making during the West European Middle to Upper Palaeolithic t
Late Mousterian lithic technology: its implications for the pace of the emergence of behavioural mod
Exploring and quantifying technological differences between the MSA I, MSA II and Howieson’s Poort
Stratigraphic integrity of the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave
Testing and demonstrating the stratigraphic integrity of artefacts from MSA deposits at Blombos Cave
From tool to symbol: the behavioural context of intentionally marked ostrich eggshell from Diepkloof
Chronology of the Howieson’s Poort and Still Bay techno-complexes: assessment and new data from lu
Subsistence strategies in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave: the microscopic evidence from stone t
Speaking with beads: the evolutionary significance of personal ornaments
Personal names index

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