Alum (BA 1982) Dr. John J. Shea’s new book “Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates”

Alum (BA 1982) John J. Shea, Professor Anthropology at SUNY, has a new book being published January 2017:  Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.  Click here for additional information.

Some background from the author:  “Several years ago I was among physical anthropologist colleagues at conference in Gibraltar and we were discussing how difficult it was to relate lithic archaeology evidence to other evidence for in human evolution.  I wondered aloud that it might be fun to try to write a book showing how of how stone tools changed in prehistory and in relation to human evolution without using any of the named stone tool industries, age-stages, or any but the minimum number of traditionally-recognized artifact-types archaeologists customarily use.  This is that book.”