The first technical traditions of the early Paleolithic.
The Harmattan| N° d'inventaire | 23542 |
| Format | 15 x 24 |
| Détails | 325 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782343213248 |
For anyone interested in the origins and development of Man, this book offers an immersion into the beginnings of the history of technology. The first stone tools, the oldest material traces of human activities, are presented and studied here from the angle of technological and techno-functional analysis. The scientific approach serves a purpose leading to the establishment of technical traditions that are followed through different spaces and chronologies, here East Africa and Europe. Faced with the paradigm of linear evolution stemming from paleoanthropological discourse, the author questions the possible multiplicity of centers of emergence of technical traditions, in co-evolution with the biological.
For anyone interested in the origins and development of Man, this book offers an immersion into the beginnings of the history of technology. The first stone tools, the oldest material traces of human activities, are presented and studied here from the angle of technological and techno-functional analysis. The scientific approach serves a purpose leading to the establishment of technical traditions that are followed through different spaces and chronologies, here East Africa and Europe. Faced with the paradigm of linear evolution stemming from paleoanthropological discourse, the author questions the possible multiplicity of centers of emergence of technical traditions, in co-evolution with the biological.