Inferring Aspects of Acheulean Sociality and Cognition from Lithic Technology

Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 217-231

  Shipton, Ceri ^a   Petraglia, Michael D ^a   Paddayya, Katragadda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune   (India)

Author keywords

Biface metrics; Hominid cognition,adaptation and cultural chronology; Hunsgi and Baichbal valleys; Inferring aspects of Acheulean sociality and cognition; Metric measurements on bifaces from the site of Isampur Quarry; Raw material transfer distances

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; QUARRIES; SITE SELECTION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

BIFACE METRICS; HOMINID COGNITION,ADAPTATION AND CULTURAL CHRONOLOGY; HUNSGI AND BAICHBAL VALLEYS; INFERRING ASPECTS OF ACHEULEAN SOCIALITY AND COGNITION; MATERIAL TRANSFERS; METRIC MEASUREMENT;

RAW MATERIALS;

EID: 84957955724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444311976.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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