Science and Technology in Human Societies: From Tool Making to Technology

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CARTA-Inspired Publication

Publication Type: Book Chapter

Authors: Ayala, FJ; Cela-Conde, CJ

Year of Publication: 2017

Book Title: On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion

Chapter: 44

Pagination: 729–755

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Language: eng

Keywords: Acheulean; African late stone age; African middle stone age; Aurignacian; Burials; Culture; Mousterian; Oldowan; Symbolism; Tool making

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.

URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124201903000442

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420190-3.00044-2

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