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Stone toolS and the Evolution of Human Cognition Stone toolS and the Evolution of Human Cognition edited by April Nowell and Iain Davidson u n i v E r s i t y P r E s s o f C o l o r a d o © 2010 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the University Press of Colorado 5589 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 206C Boulder, Colorado 80303 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The University Press of Colorado is a proud member of the Association of American University Presses. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metro- politan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition / Edited by April Nowell and Iain Davidson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60732-030-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Stone implements. 2. Tools, Prehistoric. 3. Cognition and culture. 4. Human behavior. I. Nowell, April, 1969– II. Davidson, Iain, 1948– GN434.S75 2010 930.1'0285—dc22 2010007637 Design by Daniel Pratt 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Jon (AN) and Helen (ID) Contents 1 | Introduction and Overview 1 Iain Davidson and April Nowell 2 | “Grammars of Action” and Stone Flaking Design Space 13 Mark W. Moore 3 | Insights on the Technical Competence of the Early Oldowan 45 Ignacio de la Torre 4 | Growing Up in the Middle Pleistocene: Life History Strategies and Their Relationship to Acheulian Industries 67 April Nowell and Mark White 5 | How Levallois Reduction Is Similar to, and Not Similar to, Playing Chess 83 Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge 6 | On Standardization in the Paleolithic: Measures, Causes, and Interpretations of Metric Similarity in Stone Tools 105 Steven L. Kuhn vii ContEnts 7 | Middle Stone Age Stone Tools from Klasies River Main Site and Symbolic Cognition 135 Sarah Wurz 8 | Possible Relations between Language and Technology in Human Evolution 159 Dietrich Stout 9 | Stone Tools and the Evolution of Hominin and Human Cognition 185 Iain Davidson 10 | Current Developments in Inferring Cognitive Capabilities from the Archaeological Traces Left by Stone Tools: Caught between a Rock and a Hard Inference 207 Philip J. Barnard List of Contributors 227 Index 229 viii Stone toolS and the Evolution of Human Cognition
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