Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas. – The origins of technology under debate: a review of the first lithic industries
For many years, the scientific community has considered the production of lithic artifacts as a unique characteristic of the genus Homo. However, recent discoveries made in African sites have provided results that seem to put this issue in doubt, delaying the appearance time of the first stone indu...
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| description | For many years, the scientific community has considered the production of lithic artifacts as a unique characteristic of the genus Homo. However, recent discoveries made in African sites have
provided results that seem to put this issue in doubt, delaying the appearance time of the first stone industries to beyond the 2.6 Myr. posed by the deposits of Kada Gona. This paper aims to make a
review on these sites, trying to consider the possible authorship of that early technologies, which are framed in a high complexity paleoanthropological context, and perhaps are attributable to members of other genres. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73cd25f32eb34930b2f03387bb908b102022-12-21T20:18:14ZengUniversidad de MurciaPanta rei1136-24642386-88642016-10-01201691810.6018/pantarei/2016/1Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas. – The origins of technology under debate: a review of the first lithic industriesArturo Cueva Temprana0Universitat Rovira i VirgiliFor many years, the scientific community has considered the production of lithic artifacts as a unique characteristic of the genus Homo. However, recent discoveries made in African sites have provided results that seem to put this issue in doubt, delaying the appearance time of the first stone industries to beyond the 2.6 Myr. posed by the deposits of Kada Gona. This paper aims to make a review on these sites, trying to consider the possible authorship of that early technologies, which are framed in a high complexity paleoanthropological context, and perhaps are attributable to members of other genres.http://www.um.es/cepoat/pantarei/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/panta16_1.pdfAnthropologyArchaeologyCognitive DevelopmentPrehistoryTechnological Development |
| spellingShingle | Arturo Cueva Temprana Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas. – The origins of technology under debate: a review of the first lithic industries Panta rei Anthropology Archaeology Cognitive Development Prehistory Technological Development |
| title | Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas. – The origins of technology under debate: a review of the first lithic industries |
| title_full | Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas. – The origins of technology under debate: a review of the first lithic industries |
| title_fullStr | Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas. – The origins of technology under debate: a review of the first lithic industries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas. – The origins of technology under debate: a review of the first lithic industries |
| title_short | Los orígenes de la tecnología a debate: una revisión de las primeras industrias líticas. – The origins of technology under debate: a review of the first lithic industries |
| title_sort | los origenes de la tecnologia a debate una revision de las primeras industrias liticas the origins of technology under debate a review of the first lithic industries |
| topic | Anthropology Archaeology Cognitive Development Prehistory Technological Development |
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