education
From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web
Educational Project
The Stone Age Institute has initiated a long-term, multi-facetted educational project presenting the top 100 events in the evolution of the universe, the earth, life, and the human species.
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sai press
Stone Age Institute Press volumes now available:
The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age (2006)
Breathing Life into Fossils: Taphonomic Studies in Honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain (2007)
NEW The Cutting Edge: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Human Origins (2009)
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The primary mission of the Stone Age Institute is to study the origins of human technology and the evolution of our technological adaptation in order to gain a better understanding of ourselves and our place in nature. A critical component of this undertaking is training and mentoring of scholars from around the world to make this search for understanding broad-based and inclusive, and to take this research to those areas of the world where critical stages of this journey occurred.
How skilled were early hominid tool-makers, and how do these skills compare to those among our closest living relatives, the apes?