Lithic Technology And Behavioral Variability During The Middle Stone Age Of Southern Africa
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Lithic Technology And Behavioral Variability During The Middle Stone Age Of Southern Africa
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Author : Manuel Will
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Lithic Technology And Behavioral Variability During The Middle Stone Age Of Southern Africa written by Manuel Will and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Landscape Variability In Tool Use And Edge Damage Formation In South African Middle Stone Age Lithic Sssemblages
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Author : Benjamin J. Schoville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Landscape Variability In Tool Use And Edge Damage Formation In South African Middle Stone Age Lithic Sssemblages written by Benjamin J. Schoville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Electronic dissertations categories.
This study explores how early modern humans used stone tool technology to adapt to changing climates and coastlines in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa. The MSA is associated with the earliest fossil evidence for modern humans and complex cultural behaviors during a time period of dramatic climate change. Human culture allows for the creation, use, and transmission of technological knowledge that can evolve with changing environmental conditions. Understanding the interactions between technology and the environment is essential to illuminating the role of culture during the origin of our species. This study is focused on understanding ancient tool use from the study of lithic edge damage patterns at archaeological assemblages in southern Africa by using image-based quantitative methods for analyzing stone tools. An extensive experimental program using replicated stone tools provides the comparative linkages between the archaeological artifacts and the tasks for which they were used. MSA foragers structured their tool use and discard behaviors on the landscape in several ways by using and discarding hunting tools more frequently in the field rather than in caves/rockshelters, but similarly in coastal and interior contexts. This study provides evidence that during a significant microlithic technological shift seen in southern Africa at ~75,000 years ago, new technologies were developed alongside rather than replacing existing technologies. These results are compared with aspects of the European archaeological record at this time to identify features of early human technological behavior that may be unique to the evolutionary history of our species.
On The Variability Of Middle Stone Age Lithic Technology During Mis3 In Kwazulu Natal South Africa
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Author : Gregor Donatus Bader
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
On The Variability Of Middle Stone Age Lithic Technology During Mis3 In Kwazulu Natal South Africa written by Gregor Donatus Bader and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Early Microlithic Technologies And Behavioural Variability In Southern Africa And South Asia
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Author : Laura Lewis
language : en
Publisher: BAR International Series
Release Date : 2017
Early Microlithic Technologies And Behavioural Variability In Southern Africa And South Asia written by Laura Lewis and has been published by BAR International Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Social Science categories.
This volume provides the first exploration of variability in two of the earliest microlithic industries in the world: the Howiesons Poort of southern Africa and the Late Palaeolithic of South Asia. It demonstrates the independent innovation of microlithic technology, and has implications for our understanding of modern human behaviour and disper...
Technological Change In The Early Middle Pleistocene
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Author : Jayne Wilkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Technological Change In The Early Middle Pleistocene written by Jayne Wilkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Lithic Technological Organization And Paleoenvironmental Change
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Author : Erick Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-06
Lithic Technological Organization And Paleoenvironmental Change written by Erick Robinson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-06 with Social Science categories.
The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in technological organization - embracing a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and methodological approaches. As technology brings more refined information on ancient climates, the research on spatial and temporal variability of paleoenvironmental changes. In turn, this has also broadened considerations of the many ways that prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have responded to fluctuations in resource bases. From an archaeological perspective, stone tools and their associated debitage provide clues to understanding these past choices and decisions, and help to further the investigation into how variable human responses may have been. Despite significant advances in the theory and methodology of lithic technological analysis, there have been few attempts to link these developments to paleoenvironmental research on a global scale.
Bedtime For The Middle Stone Age
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Author : Theodore Pearson Marks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Bedtime For The Middle Stone Age written by Theodore Pearson Marks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Mesolithic period categories.
Scholars of the Late Pleistocene in Southern Africa have recently sought to develop models explaining long-term variation between Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age assemblages in terms of variability between "macrolithic" vs. "microlithic" toolmaking systems associated with shifts in hunter-gatherer ecology and land use patterns. While it has often proven extremely difficult to actually test many models, recently developed methods allow us to do so in novel ways. In this dissertation, I use new archaeological data from excavations of two sites in the Namib Desert, as well as new approaches to sourcing lithic artifacts to examine the hypothesis that contrasts between terminal Pleistocene (ca. 15-20 ka BP) and early Holocene (ca. 6-12 ka BP) occupation phases at the two sites represent adaptive responses primarily driven by changes in fluvial regimes and the resource productivity of riparian corridors. Analyzing the lithic assemblage compositions and locating probable source areas for raw materials suggests that terminal Pleistocene groups likely centered land use strategies more toward upland areas east of the study sites and periodically followed broad riparian corridors into the desert itself. Early Holocene groups expanded their ranges and more intensively targeted resources on the open desert plains, dunes, and beaches of the coastal lowlands. My results suggest environmental change may be partially responsible for driving this shift, but new data and methodological tools are needed to address factors like fluctuations in regional population size that may have been driving shifts in the late Pleistocene record of this unique region of Southern Africa.
Theology And Evolutionary Anthropology
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Author : Celia Deane-Drummond
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-01-29
Theology And Evolutionary Anthropology written by Celia Deane-Drummond and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with Religion categories.
This book sets out some of the latest scientific findings around the evolutionary development of religion and faith and then explores their theological implications. This unique combination of perspectives raises fascinating questions about the characteristics that are considered integral for a flourishing social and religious life and allows us to start to ask where in the evolutionary record they first show up in a distinctly human manner. The book builds a case for connecting theology and evolutionary anthropology using both historical and contemporary sources of knowledge to try and understand the origins of wisdom, humility, and grace in ‘deep time’. In the section on wisdom, the book examines the origins of complex decision-making in humans through the archaeological record, recent discoveries in evolutionary anthropology, and the philosophical richness of semiotics. The book then moves to an exploration of the origin of characteristics integral to the social life of small-scale communities, which then points in an indirect way to the disposition of humility. Finally, it investigates the theological dimensions of grace and considers how artefacts left behind in the material record by our human ancestors, and the perspective they reflect, might inform contemporary concepts of grace. This is a cutting-edge volume that refuses to commit the errors of either too easy a synthesis or too facile a separation between science and religion. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of religious studies and theology – especially those who interact with scientific fields – as well as academics working in anthropology of religion.
Prehistoric Stone Tools Of Eastern Africa
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Author : John J. Shea
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-16
Prehistoric Stone Tools Of Eastern Africa written by John J. Shea and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-16 with History categories.
A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.
The Oxford Handbook Of African Archaeology
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Author : Peter Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-07-04
The Oxford Handbook Of African Archaeology written by Peter Mitchell and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with History categories.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive 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. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.