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Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424431
A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.
Author : John Joseph Shea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Stone implements
ISBN : 1108440169
"Stone tools are the least familiar objects that archaeologists recover from their excavations, and predictably, they struggle to understand them. Eastern Africa alone boasts a 3.4 million-year-long archaeological record but its stone tool evidence still remains disorganized, unsynthesized, and all 8 but-impenetrable to non-experts, and especially so to students from Eastern African countries. In this book, John J. Shea offers a simple, straightforward, and richly illustrated introduction in how to read stone tools. An experienced stone tool analyst and an expert stoneworker, he synthesizes the Eastern African stone tool evidence for the first time. Shea presents the EAST Typology, a new 15 framework for describing stone tools specifically designed to allow archaeologist to do what they currently cannot: compare stone tool evidence across the full sweep of Eastern African prehistory. He also includes a series of short, fictional , and humorous vignettes set on an Eastern 20 African archaeological excavation, which illustrate the major issues and controversies in research about stone tools"--
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107006980
This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107123090
An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.
Author : Chapurukha M. Kusimba,Sibel B. Kusimba
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536261
The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African archaeology, many by Africa-born archaeologists who review what is known, present new research, and pinpoint issues of debate and anomaly in the relatively poorly known prehistory of East Africa.
Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0520066960
"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Author : Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Publisher : New York : Negro Universities Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015015384418
Author : Sonia Cole
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : UOM:39015008921630
Summarizes recent anthropological discoveries in East Africa and assesses their significance.
Author : Laurel Phillipson,D. W. Phillipson,British Institute in Eastern Africa
Publisher : British Institute in Eastern Africa
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038896424
Author : J. D. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107635364
This 1954 text analyses the relationship between physical geography and stone age culture within the Horn of Africa.
Author : Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107022928
International archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.
Author : Pascal Richet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1573 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118799420
A comprehensive and up-to-date encyclopedia to the fabrication, nature, properties, uses, and history of glass The Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture has been designed to satisfy the needs and curiosity of a broad audience interested in the most varied aspects of material that is as old as the universe. As described in over 100 chapters and illustrated with 1100 figures, the practical importance of glass has increased over the ages since it was first man-made four millennia ago. The old-age glass vessels and window and stained glass now coexist with new high-tech products that include for example optical fibers, thin films, metallic, bioactive and hybrid organic-inorganic glasses, amorphous ices or all-solid-state batteries. In the form of scholarly introductions, the Encyclopedia chapters have been written by 151 noted experts working in 23 countries. They present at a consistent level and in a self-consistent manner these industrial, technological, scientific, historical and cultural aspects. Addressing the most recent fundamental advances in glass science and technology, as well as rapidly developing topics such as extra-terrestrial or biogenic glasses, this important guide: Begins with industrial glassmaking Turns to glass structure and to physical, transport and chemical properties Deals with interactions with light, inorganic glass families and organically related glasses Considers a variety of environmental and energy issues And concludes with a long section on the history of glass as a material from Prehistory to modern glass science The Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture has been written not only for glass scientists and engineers in academia and industry, but also for material scientists as well as for art and industry historians. It represents a must-have, comprehensive guide to the myriad aspects this truly outstanding state of matter.
Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0306451980
Lithic analysts have been criticised for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to the development of archaeological theory. Stone Tools' addresses this issue by presenting contributions that employ explicitly theoretical constructs to interpret the archaeological record.
Author : Kathy Diane Schick,Nicholas Patrick Toth
Publisher : Stone Age Institute Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015070768729
The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human lineage. The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age provides a critical look at early archaeological sites and their evidence. This volume also shows how a range of probing, multidisciplinary, experimental investigations - including experimental tool-making, comparative studies of ape technologies, biomechanical analysis, and PET studies of brain activity - help us evaluate this tantalizing prehistoric evidence and appreciate its relevance to human evolution.
Author : Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626142
Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.
