Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition

Contents

vii 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 Contents viii C o n t E n t s 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 and the Evolution of Human Cognition STONE TOOLS ...