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Making silent stones speak
Who were the earliest tool makers? How did they live? What kinds of tools did they make and use? Most important, what role did this early technology play in human evolution? In Making Silent Stones Speak, Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick literally reconstruct the lives of our primitive tool-making ancestors. Drawing on two decades of field work around the world, they show how early prehistoric sites have been discovered, excavated, studied, and interpreted. They take the reader along with them to the savannahs of East Africa, the plains of northern China, and the mountains of New Guinea - and into the past. Then, in a dramatic recreation of primitive technology, they show how early stone tools were made - and how they can be made and used today, by both modern human beings and chimpanzees. Mixing archaeology and practical experimentation, Making Silent Stones Speak then moves beyond...
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