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Stone Tools and Fossil Bones : Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins.
International archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; STONE TOOLS AND FOSSIL BONES; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Figures; Contributors; Introduction; References; CHAPTER 1: Toward a scientific-realistic theory on the origin of human behavior; Defining the concepts and formulating the hierarchy of the theory components; Hypothesis interrelatedness: The neural network of the theoretical body; How to measure the heuristic value of alternative theories?; Discussion and conclusion; References; PART I: On the Use of Analogy I: The Earliest Meat Eaters.
- CHAPTER 2: Conceptual premises in experimental design and their bearing on the use of analogy: A critical example from experiments on cut marksAnalogy, uniformitarianism, and the concept of regularity; A practical example documenting conceptual variability in hypothesis testing: Experimental replication and interpretation of cut marks; Discussion; On the use of analogy; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 3: The use of bone surface modifications to model hominid lifeways during the Oldowan; The role of bone surface modifications in understanding faunal assemblage formation.
- The role of actualism in identifying and interpreting bone surface modificationsTypes and morphological features of hominid and carnivore bone surface damage; Hominid damage; Carnivore damage; Tooth mark dimensions and identifying carnivore types; Protocol, problems, and pitfalls in the identification of bone surface modifications; Quantification and analysis of bone surface modifications; Actualistic samples and the timing of hominid and carnivore access to carcasses; Comparing surface mark frequencies between fossil and actualistic assemblages.
- What have bone surface modifications taught us about the Oldowan?Where do we go from here?; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 4: On early hominin meat eating and carcass acquisition strategies: Still relevant after all these years?; Unpacking the hunting-versus-scavenging debate; Zooarchaeological and taphonomic evidence; Impacts from multiple agents; Systematic butchering; Life-history profiles, meat acquisition, and dietary change; Big-game acquisition as a competitive display; Hunting and embodied capital; Where do we go from here? Moving beyond stone and bones; Conclusion; References.
- CHAPTER 5: Meat foraging by Pleistocene African hominins: Tracking behavioral evolution beyond baseline inferences of early access to carcassesPerspectives of the first indications of hominin meat eating; Lessons from extant hominoids: chimpanzees and human hunter-gatherers; Stabbing, thrusting, and casting; "Man the ambush predator": unthinkable, unknowable, or unavoidable?; Charting the course forward; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER 6: Can we use chimpanzee behavior to model early hominin hunting?; The fundamentals of referential modeling in paleoanthropology; Hominin habitats.