Article ID: CBB001022769

Human Tools of the European Tertiary? Artefacts, Brains and Minds in Evolutionist Reasoning, 1870--1920 (2011)

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Sommer, Marianne (Author)


Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 65
Pages: 65--82


Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Prehistoric Minds: Human Origins as a Cultural Artefact, 1780--2010”
Language: English

This essay explores evolutionary reasoning and notions of progress at the turn of the twentieth century by focusing on the various interpretations used to understand eoliths. These `dawn' (Greek eos) `stones' (Greek lithos) were contested objects and I focus on three geographic episodes in which they were used to support scientific, and sometimes socially inspired, accounts of human origins. Particular attention is paid to the work of Gabriel de Mortillet (1821--98), James Reid Moir (1879--1944) and Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857--1935).

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Authors & Contributors
Goodrum, Matthew R.
Sommer, Marianne
Alter, Stephen G.
Auat, Luis Alejandro
Eddy, Matthew D.
Gamble, Clive
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Archives of Natural History
Biological Theory
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Archaeopress
Drew University
Concepts
Human evolution
Prehistory and primitive societies
Archaeology
Evolutionary psychology
Physical anthropology
Anthropology, prehistoric
People
Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Darwin, Charles Robert
Bryan, William Jennings
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Dawkins, William Boyd
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Stone age
21st century
Places
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Europe
United States
Argentina
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