Author: John J. SheaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.
Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa
Author: John J. SheaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.
Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa
Author: John Joseph SheaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108440165
Category : Stone implements
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"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"--
Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East
Author: John J. SheaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107006988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.
Stone Tools in Human Evolution
Author: John J. SheaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107123097
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.
The Oldowan
Author: Kathy Diane SchickPublisher: Stone Age Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.
Stone Tools and Fossil Bones
Author: Manuel DomÃnguez-RodrigoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
International archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.
UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition
Author: Jacqueline Ki-ZerboPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"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
Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture, 2 Volume Set
Author: Pascal RichetPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118799429
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1573
Book Description
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.
Stone Age Africa
Author: Louis Seymour Bazett LeakeyPublisher: New York : Negro Universities Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
East African Archaeology
Author: Chapurukha M. KusimbaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1934536261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.