Homo faber. 2 millions d’années d’histoire de la pierre taillée. De l’Afrique aux portes de l’Europe. antiquité mosaics constitute a considerable corpus

mosaics constitute a considerable corpus from which the contributions propose

full of anecdotes and the unexpected

he considered it to give "better than painting the measure of [his] qualities and [his] science in the rhythm and arabesque of lines

Fernand Pelez

Homo faber. 2 millions d’années d’histoire de la pierre taillée. De l’Afrique aux portes de l’Europe. antiquité mosaics constitute a considerable corpusHomo Faber, "the one who makes," traces the history of our lineage through this founding moment when the different species of hominins present in Africa, the cradle of humanity, designed the first stone tools by controlled fracturing of hard rocks. Between 3. 3 and 1. 7 million years ago, the first cutters passed through successive stages of cognition, attested by recent archaeological discoveries made in Kenya and Ethiopia: selection and then