Making Silent Stones Speak Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology

by Kathy Diane Schick

By far the greatest part of human history has been taken up by peoples whose principal tool was the stone hand-axe. But until now, we knew very little about what the hand-axes were actually used for. Taking an original approach - in learning to make the tools themselves and trying them out - the authors made some astonishing discoveries about the technical abilities of our primitive ancestors. And their experiments provided new insights into theories of brain evolution and human development.

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