Author : Ravi Korisettar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134828551
Early Human Behaviour in a Global Context will be of use to students and professionals who are interested in prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology, and paleoanthropology. Those interested in our ancestors and their place in the natural world will also benefit from the information presented in this book. Chapters focus on: * the nature of archaeological evidence * stone tool technology * subsistence practices * settlement distributions.
Author : Clive Gamble
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415284325
"Rather than explaining the archaeology of stones and bones as the product of group decisions, the contributors investigate how individual action created social life. This challenge to the accepted standpoint of the Palaeolithic brings new models and theories into the period; innovations that are matched by the resolution of the data that preserve individual action among the artefacts. The book brings together examples from recent excavations at Boxgrove, Schoningen and Blombos Cave, and the analyses of findings from Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene excavations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The results will revolutionise the Palaeolithic as archaeologists search for the lived lives among the empty spaces that remain."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Marshall H. Segall
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : Michael D. Petraglia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1402055625
This is the first volume of its kind on prehistoric cultures of South Asia. The book brings together archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists in order to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of human populations residing in the subcontinent. New theories and methodologies presented provide new interpretations about the cultural history and evolution of populations in South Asia.
Author : Geological Society of London
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862391819
The Early-Middle Pleistocene transition (around 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) marks a profound shift in Earth's climate state. Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part of the Pleistocene, gave way progressively to a 100 ka rhythm of increased amplitude that characterizes our present glacial-interglacial world. This volume assesses the biotic and physical response to this transition both on land and in the oceans: indeed it examines the very nature of Quaternary climate change. Milankovitch theory, palaeoceanography using isotopes and microfossils, marine organic geochemistry, tephrochronology, the record of loess and soil deposition, terrestrial vegetational change, and the migration and evolution of hominins as well as other large and small mammals, are all considered. These themes combine to explore the very origins of our present biota.
Author : Mukhtar Ahmed
Publisher : Amazon
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1495490475
Ancient Pakistan - An Archaeological History deals with the prehistory of Pakistan from the Stone Age to the end of the Indus Civilization. This particular volume, The Stone Age, concerns with the first appearance of man in northern Pakistan more than a million years ago and traces his cultural history up to the emergence of agriculture and sedentary living in this region. The book is written for students of ancient history, anthropology, and archaeology. The material is generously illustrated with a large number of maps, tables, drawings, and colored photographs. Each Section is provided with extensive references to the text and a comprehensive bibliography is provided for those who want to dig deeper into the subject. Although the book primarily deals with the Greater Indus Valley, its scope is much wider: the subject has been discussed in context with the paleolithic of India, Central Asia, and Iran. The story of human evolution provides a constant background.
Author : Nicholas J. Allen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1444338781
Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society. A major new collaboration between specialists across the range of the human sciences including evolutionary biology and psychology; social/cultural anthropology; archaeology and linguistics Provides a ground-breaking set of original studies offering a new perspective on early human history Debates fundamental questions about early human society: Was there a connection between the beginnings of language and the beginnings of organized 'kinship and marriage'? How far did evolutionary selection favor gender and generation as principles for regulating social relations? Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in conjunction with the British Academy
Author : V.R. Rao
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2007-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN :
Papers presented at a national conference held at New Delhi during 22-24 March, 2004.
Author : Rintaro Ono
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : 1838803572
This book presents an overview of recent research in the field of Pleistocene Archaeology around the world. The main topics of this book are: (1) human migrations, particularly by Homo sapiens who have migrated into most regions of the world and settled in different environments, (2) the development of human technology from early to archaic hominins and Homo sapiens, and (3) human adaptation to new environments and responses to environmental changes caused by climate changes during the Pleistocene. With such perspectives in mind, this book contains a total of nine insightful and stimulating chapters on these topics, in which human history during the time of the Pleistocene is reviewed and discussed.
Author : Christopher J. Norton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9048190940
This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. 2 Ma. The scope of the book is comprehensive as it covers almost every major region of Asia. The primary goal of this volume is to provide an updated synthesis of the current state of the Asian paleoanthropological and paleoenvironmental records. Papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa, including detailed reconstructions of the paleoenvironment and possible migration routes. Other papers detail the Plio-Pleistocene archaeological and hominin fossil records of particular regions.
