Making Silent Stones Speak Human Evolution And The Dawn Of Technology

by Schick, Kathy D.

• ISBN13: 9780671875381
• ISBN10: 0671875388
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-02-03
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

In this dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest tool-making humans, two leading anthropologists reveal how the first technologies-- stone, wood, and bone tools-- forever changed the course of human evolution.

Based on the authors' unique mix of archaeology and practical experiments, ranging from making their own stone tools to theorizing about the origins of human intelligence, Making Silent Stones Speak brings the latest ideas about human evolution to life.

Author Biography

Kathy Diane Schick is an archaeologist. She currently works as an anthropology professor in the Department of Biology and Geological Science at Indiana University, Bloomington

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Introduction	p. 15
Before the Dawn	p. 25
The Stone Age Considered	p. 48
Dawn Breaks: The First Stone Tool Makers	p. 77
Fashioning Our Future: The Making of Early Stone Tools	p. 108
The Role of Rock: Uses of Early Stone Tools	p. 147
The Nature and Significance of Early Stone Age Sites	p. 187
The Handaxe Makers and Their Contemporaries	p. 225
The Human Threshold	p. 285
Brave New World?	p. 312
Afterword	p. 319
Further Reading	p. 325
Index	p. 335
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