By Radu Iovita, Katsuhiro Sano
The goal of this quantity is to show off the modern kingdom of analysis on spotting and comparing the functionality of stone age guns from a number of viewpoints, together with investigating their cognitive and evolutionary value.
New archaeological reveals and experimental reviews have helped to deliver this topic again to the leading edge of human origins study. within the previous few years, investigations have multiplied past interpreting the instruments themselves to incorporate reviews of wear and tear attributable to projectile guns on animal and hominin bones and skeletal asymmetries in historical hominin populations. just recently has there been a becoming curiosity in managed and replicative experiments. via this e-book readers could be up to date within the country of data via a multidisciplinary clinical reconstruction of prehistoric weapon use and its implications.
Contributions from professional authors are geared up into 3 themed elements: spotting weapon use (experimental and archaeological reports of influence traces), functionality of weapon platforms (factors influencing penetration intensity etc.), and behavioral and evolutionary ramifications (cognitive and ecological results of utilizing varied weapons).
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