Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology

Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Kathy Diane Schick

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 351


Anthropologists Schick and Toth, who spent five years learning how to make and use Stone Age tools, show how early tools were made and propose startling new theories about the key role of toolmaking in our evolution from apes to socially organized creatures whose brains displayed the left/right differentiations so crucial to our development. Photos.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Kathy Diane Schick

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 351


Anthropologists Schick and Toth, who spent five years learning how to make and use Stone Age tools, show how early tools were made and propose startling new theories about the key role of toolmaking in our evolution from apes to socially organized creatures whose brains displayed the left/right differentiations so crucial to our development. Photos.