Projektnummer

0071845

Zusammenfassung

Paleolithic stone artefacts have survived millennia of human evolution and provide a unique opportunity to chart the development of human technology on timescales unattainable for other technologies or periods. Yet paradoxically, Paleolithic stone artefact research remains ill-equipped to advance basic knowledge on how technology evolves over the very long term and why - key issues in long-standing debates on the place of humans in the increasingly technologized worlds of today and tomorrow. The project responds to this lacuna and develops a new theoretical framework for investigating ...