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The products of this source dominate our picture for the distribution of stone axes across Britain as a whole , accounting for roughly 40 % of the total number of grouped stone imple- ments ( Clough and Cummins 1988 ) . In addition ...
The products of this source dominate our picture for the distribution of stone axes across Britain as a whole , accounting for roughly 40 % of the total number of grouped stone imple- ments ( Clough and Cummins 1988 ) . In addition ...
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... picture as a central issue . We are just beginning this new debate , aiming to assess how far technology is our best indicator of past abilities ; and to what extent we can recover information about design form from stone tools . One ...
... picture as a central issue . We are just beginning this new debate , aiming to assess how far technology is our best indicator of past abilities ; and to what extent we can recover information about design form from stone tools . One ...
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... picture of its social context . It is much more questionable that technol- ogy has a major part in hominid evolution before 2-3 million years ago . It appears , however , that from about 2 million year ago we see ( i ) longer ...
... picture of its social context . It is much more questionable that technol- ogy has a major part in hominid evolution before 2-3 million years ago . It appears , however , that from about 2 million year ago we see ( i ) longer ...
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TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES | 3 |
Nathan Schlanger | 18 |
Pierre Lemonnier | 27 |
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Acheulean acquisition action on matter African archaeology analysis anthropology approach Archaeological Review argued artefacts aspects basis behaviour bifaces Cambridge 9:1 Cambridge University Press chaîne opératoire complex concept of technology context core debitage duration of apprenticeship East German Eastern Europe economic elements environment Etiolles evidence evolution evolutionary example flakes flintknapping Franchthi Cave function gesture Gowlett handaxe hominids human hunter-gatherers hunting and gathering individual industries Ingold innovation interpretation Karlin knapper knapping know-how knowledge Leroi-Gourhan lithic lithic analysis Magdalenian manufacture Marxism material culture Mauss meaning Mesolithic nature Neolithic object Oldowan operational organisation Palaeolithic Paris Pelegrin Perlès Pigeot possible practical prehistoric problem raw material relationship Review from Cambridge sequence simply skills social relations society spatial specific stone axes stone tools striking platform structure symbolic technical activities techniques techno-economic theoretical theory tion transformation understanding Upper Palaeolithic Wynn