John J. Shea (State University of New York Stony Brook University)

Broschiertes Buch

Stone Tools in Human Evolution

Beschreibung

This book explains in simple, straightforward terms what stone tools are, how and why they vary, and what that variability means for human evolution. It is a book about stone tools written for students and for non-archaeologists by an expert at making, using, and analyzing stone tools.

Autor

John J. Shea is Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide (2013) and co-editor of Out of Africa 1: The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia (2010). Shea is also an expert flintknapper whose demonstrations of stone tool production and other ancestral technology skills appear in numerous television documentaries and in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, as well as in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781107554931
• ISBN-10: 1107554934
• Artikelnr.: 45540419