1st Edition

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies

By Steven L. Kuhn Copyright 2020
432 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

432 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

432 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

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

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Steven L. Kuhn is Riecker Distinguished Professor in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. He has conducted research on Paleolithic sites and stone artefacts in Turkey, Mediterranean Europe, the Levant, Morocco, and China. With his wife and frequent collaborator, Dr. Mary Stiner, Dr. Kuhn has also published on the evolution of human societies and symbolic behaviour during the Pleistocene.