The Stone Age Institute Presents
a lecture by Co-directors
Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth

 

“The Technological Ape:
Human Evolution and the
Rise of Tool-Making”

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Whittenberger Auditorium
Indiana Memorial Union
Indiana University, Bloomington

Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth, Professors at Indiana University and Co-Directors of The Stone Age Institute and CRAFT Research Center, will draw on over three decades of archaeological research investigating the origins and evolution of human technology and its role in human evolution. Schick and Toth have conducted research in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and are experts in making and using primitive stone tools. They taught apes to make and use stone tools, studied one of the last traditional stone technologies in New Guinea, collaborated on brain imaging studies and biomechanical studies of stone tool activities. There will also be a brief demonstration of stone tool manufacture.

This is a free public event. All interested are welcome.