@inbook {315659, title = {Science and Technology in Human Societies: From Tool Making to Technology}, booktitle = {On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion}, year = {2017}, pages = {729{\textendash}755}, publisher = {Academic Press}, organization = {Academic Press}, chapter = {44}, abstract = {

The distinctive features of the genus\ Homo\ include tool making and tool using. Different human cultural modes or traditions occur over time throughout the Pleistocene, from the Lower and Middle to the Upper. At the same time, different human lineage taxa evolve. This chapter presents the relationships among hominin species and cultural modes, attempting to offer an evolutionary model of the stages that eventuated from early tool making to technology.

}, keywords = {Acheulean; African late stone age; African middle stone age; Aurignacian; Burials; Culture; Mousterian; Oldowan; Symbolism; Tool making}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420190-3.00044-2}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124201903000442}, author = {Ayala, FJ and Cela-Conde, CJ} }