Tool use and the hand

Christopher Dunmore; Fotios Alexandros Karakostis; Timo van Leeuwen; Szu-Ching Lu; Tomos  Proffitt

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-821383-4.00011-5

Tool use and the hand

Christopher Dunmore, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Timo van Leeuwen, Szu-Ching Lu, Tomos Proffitt

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Abstract

Hands are key to our interaction with the world and technology. Thus, hand bones offer a great deal of information about the behaviours of past populations and our ancestors. This chapter details how more traditional osteological methods and emerging methodologies have been used, as well as combined, to chart the development of hand-use and technology from deep-evolutionary time to relatively recent archaeological populations. Modern human manual behaviours, and how they relate to our unique technological abilities, are contextualised within those of other living species. Fossil and associated stone tool evidence is used to explore how these capabilities evolved in our lineage.

The chapter subsequently synthesises cutting edge studies of soft tissues, their traces, and internal bone morphology to provide a finer-scale picture of manual behaviours in both our fossil ancestors and archaeological populations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Behaviour in Our Bones
Subtitle of host publication	How Human Behaviour Influences Skeletal Morphology
Editors	Cara Hirst, Rebecca Gilmour, Francisca Cardoso, Kimberly Plomp
Place of Publication	Amsterdam, Nethelands
Chapter	6
Pages	135-171
Number of pages	37
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128213841
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821383-4.00011-5
Publication status	Published - 7 Feb 2023

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tool use
hand use
human manual behaviours

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