Stone tools are the least familiar objects that archaeologists
recover from their excavations, and predictably, they struggle to
understand them. Eastern Africa alone boasts a 3.4
million-year-long archaeological record but its stone tool evidence
still remains disorganized, unsynthesized, and all-but-impenetrable
to non-experts, and especially so to students from Eastern African
countries. In this book, John J. Shea offers a simple,
straightforward, and richly illustrated introduction in how to read
stone tools. An experienced stone tool analyst and an expert
stoneworker, he synthesizes the Eastern African stone tool evidence
for the first time. Shea presents the EAST Typology, a new
framework for describing stone tools specifically designed to allow
archaeologists to do what they currently cannot: compare stone tool
evidence across the full sweep of Eastern African prehistory. He
also includes a series of short, fictional, and humorous vignettes
set on an Eastern African archaeological excavation, which
illustrate the major issues and controversies in research about
stone tools.
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