The Universal Tool Kit: Out of Africa to Native California (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780979378010)

From earliest Stone Age in Africa to 20th century California, our ancestors smashed rock to make tools. The tools from broken stones formed the most important survival kit ever invented and is surprisingly similar the world over. Elements of that kit live on today in remote corners of the globe among people close to the earth. The most important survival kit ever invented, it altered the very shape of the human species and for millions of years was truly a universal tool kit. The universal tool kit endured and accompanied man into the New World where it is strongly represented in all levels of archaeology and the ethnology of Native California. This book explores the origin, description and function of baseline stone tools and its practical applications and templates of manufacture. It also looks at stone age spear throwers and how they were used.

Author: Paul Douglas Campbell
ISBN-10: 097937801X
ISBN-13: 9780979378010
Publisher: Paul Douglas Campbell
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2014
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.00d