From Tools to Symbols
From Early Hominids to Modern Humans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20005712 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phillip V Tobias (corresponding author), Bernard Malauzat, Bonny S Williamson |
| Editors | Francesco D’errico (0000-0002-2422-3079), Lucinda Backwell (0000-0001-5816-3353) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | From Tools to Symbols (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wits University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18772/22005064174 |
| OpenAlex | W636805509 |
| Open Library | OL22740683M |
| ISBN | 9781868146376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 103 |
From Tools to Symbols represents an excellent synthesis of recent research on the origins of humankind, the evolution of the human brain and the emergence of modern human cultures from a number of disciplines. It is based on collaborative research by South African, French, American and German scholars, and contains twenty-seven essays presented at a conference organized in 2003 in honor of the well-known palaeoanthropologist Phillip Tobias. Lucinda Backwell is a researcher in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. Francesco d'Errico is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology, George Washington University
Archaeology · Arithmetic · Art history · German · Honor · Library science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Language and cultural evolution · Mathematics · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Antiquities · Congresses · Hominids · Human beings · Human evolution · Origin · Paleoanthropology · Paleoclimatology · Prehistoric Antiquities · Prehistoric Tools · South Africa · Tobias, Phillip V
Vegetation and environmental changes at the Middle Stone Age site of Wonderkrater, Limpopo, South Africa
Taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of fauna from the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Klasies River main site
Use-wear and residue analysis of pounding tools used by wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) from Serra da Capivara (Piauí, Brazil)
Identifying use-wear distributions on sewing needles
Macro use-wear identifiers on lithic scrapers and behavioural shifts at Little Muck Shelter, SLCA
Assemblage variability and bifacial points in the lowermost Sibudan layers at Sibudu, South Africa
Three Scenarios Of The Middle To Upper Paleolithic Transition The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Africa and the Early Peopling of Eurasia by Anatomically Modern Humans
Organizing the Production of Variscite Personal Ornaments in Later Prehistoric Iberia
Fashioning Identities, Forging Inequalities
From A Paleolithic Art to Pleistocene Visual Cultures (Introduction to two Special Issues on ‘Advances in the Study of Pleistocene Imagery and Symbol Use’)
Out of Africa and the evolution of human behavior
Paleolithic Art
Late Pleistocene Techno-traditions in Southern Africa
Crossing the Line
On the spatial and technological organisation of hafting modifications in the North African Middle Stone Age
A method for estimating edge length from flake dimensions
The Howiesons Poort and MSA III at Klasies River main site, Cave 1A
Prepared core reduction at the site of Kudu Koppie in northern South Africa
Technological successions in the Middle Stone Age sequence of Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa
Hunting with Howiesons Poort segments
Finding resolution for the Howiesons Poort through the microscope
Small things in perspective
An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa
Introduction to the project and excavation of Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa)
Aurignacian ethno-linguistic geography of Europe revealed by personal ornaments
Blade technology and tool forms in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa
A Segment is not a Monolith
The Still Bay points of Blombos Cave (South Africa)
Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Use-wear analysis of obsidian artifacts from Later Stone Age shell midden sites on the Red Sea Coast of Eritrea, with experimental results
Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa
Year-old Nassarius shell appliqués in Timor-Leste
Cemented ash as a receptacle or work surface for ochre powder production at Sibudu, South Africa, 58,000 years ago
Early hominid bone tools from Drimolen, South Africa
New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa
Engraved ochre from a Middle Stone Age context at Klein Kliphuis in the Western Cape of South Africa
Tortoise taphonomy and tortoise butchery patterns at Blombos Cave, South Africa
Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia
Rethinking the emergence of bone grease procurement
Processing ochre in the Middle Stone Age
The evolution of human culture during the later Pleistocene
Spatial and temporal trends in the distribution of engraved eggshell fragments
Shellfishing and human evolution
Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa
Climate variability in early expansions of Homo sapiens in light of the new record of micromammals in Misliya Cave, Israel
Announcing a Still Bay industry at Sibudu Cave, South Africa
The Middle Stone Age of the northern Kenyan Rift
The Middle Stone Age human fossil record from Klasies River Main Site
The revolution that still isn't
On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb
Subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene in the southern Cape of South Africa
Ecological implications of the relative rarity of fossil hominins at Laetoli
Coalescence and fragmentation in the late Pleistocene archaeology of southernmost Africa
Climate-mediated shifts in Neandertal subsistence behaviors at Pech de l'Azé IV and Roc de Marsal (Dordogne Valley, France)
Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa
Animal exploitation strategies during the South African Middle Stone Age
The gripping nature of ochre
Year-old worked and pigment-stained Nautilus shell from Jerimalai (Timor-Leste)
Were snares and traps used in the Middle Stone Age and does it matter? A review and a case study from Sibudu, South Africa
Thinking strings
Provenancing silcrete in the Cape coastal zone
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel
Single-grain OSL chronologies for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries and the transition between them
Middle and late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age lithic technology from Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa)
Landscapes and their relation to hominin habitats
Lithic technology and behavioural modernity
New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania
The mammalian fauna associated with an archaic hominin skullcap and later Acheulean artifacts at Elandsfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)
Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone Age
The Marine Isotope Stage 5 (∼105 ka) lithic assemblage from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter and insights into social transmission across the Kalahari Basin and its environs
What is Still Bay? Human biogeography and bifacial point variability
New Blombos Cave evidence supports a multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body
An OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B-A punctuated presence
Taphonomic analysis of the Middle Stone Age larger mammal faunal assemblage from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa
Landscapes of human evolution
Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre
Les origines de l’art et les théories sur l’évolution humaine
L’image du sens, en préhistoire
The Ice Age diet of the La Quina 5 Neandertal of southwest France
Discussion 1
The Future of Lithic Analysis in Palaeolithic Archaeology
Becoming Human
Climate, Creativity and Competition
Continuities and Discontinuities in Neandertal Presence
Development of the archaeological record in southern Africa during the Earlier Stone Age
Sibudu Cave
Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations and human evolution on the southern coastal plain of South Africa
Going East
Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model
New Criteria for the Archaeological Identification of Bone Grease Processing
Anthropology and History in the Southern African Iron Age
Keeping your Edge
Genesis of Symbolic Thought
Neanderthal Language
New evidence of bone tool use by Early Pleistocene hominins from Cooper’s D, Bloubank Valley, South Africa
The Longest Transition or Multiple Revolutions
A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of Plan Shape in Bone and Stone Acheulean Bifaces from the Middle Pleistocene Site of Castel di Guido, Latium, Italy
Cultural Evolution in Africa and Eurasia During the Middle and Late Pleistocene
Historical Perspectives on the European Transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic
| Unique citing works | 103 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |