Overview
- Recognizes and characterizes stone age weapons using controlled and replicative experiments
- Casts new light on the role of weapon technologies in shaping the course of human evolution
- Maximizes readers insights into archaeological perspectives from a variety of time periods and from all five continents with a large assortment of new analytical and experimental studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Weapons as Cultural and Cognitive Markers
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Conclusions
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About this book
The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigating their cognitive and evolutionary significance.
Contributions from expert authors are organized into three themed parts: recognizing weapon use (experimental and archaeological studies of impact traces), performance of weapon systems (factors influencing penetration depth etc.), and behavioral and evolutionary ramifications (cognitive and ecological effects of using different weapons).
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Katsuhiro Sano is an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. His research interests revolve around temporal advances in technology and function of prehistoric stone tools, especially prehistoric hunting technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry
Editors: Radu Iovita, Katsuhiro Sano
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7602-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7601-1Published: 08 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1391-5Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7602-8Published: 28 May 2016
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, Cultural History, Behavioral Sciences