From hand to handle : the first industrial revolution / Lawrence Barham.

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Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago, that technology took its first modern form and revolutionized our social and economic lives. The development of ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Barham, Lawrence (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Paleolithic period. Tools, Prehistoric. Handles. Technology and civilization. Cognition and culture. Social evolution. Human evolution.
Physical Description:	xi, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction : an enigmatic and anonymous revolution
What is combinatorial evolution?
Neural, cognitive, and anatomical foundations
Tools for learning
Something new from something old
The invention of hafting
After the revolution
A revolution without heroes.