The hominid Individual in context : archaeological investigations of lower and middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts
Gamble, Clive, Porr, Martin · London : Routledge, 2005
- Publisher
- London : Routledge, 2005
- Physical description
- 326 pages
- ISBN
- 0415284325 (cased);0415284333 (pbk.)
- Dewey classification
- 930.12
- Language
- English
Summary
"This volume explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists have for the study of our earliest ancestors. Previous investigations of human evolution in the Palaeolithic period have conventionally been from an ecological and behavioural point of view. The emphasis has been on how our early ancestors made a living, decided what to eat, adapted through their technology to the conditions of existence and reacted to changing ice age climates. The Hominid Individual in Context takes a different approach."
"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
Digital copy
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| 001Control number | 20092 |
| 005Date and time of latest transaction | 12 Apr 2012, 09:50 |
| 008Fixed-length data elements | 040816s2005 enkab b 001 0 eng d |
| 010Library of Congress control number | 2004014096 |
| 015National bibliography number | GBA479901 bnb |
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| 035System control number | 21636357 |
| 040Cataloging source | StDuBDS eng Uk |
| 041Language code | eng |
| 042Authentication code | ukblsr |
| 050Library of Congress call number | GN771 .I53 2005 |
| 082Dewey Decimal call number | 930.12 22 |
| 245Title statement | The hominid Individual in context : archaeological investigations of lower and middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts / edited by Clive Gamble and Martin Porr. |
| 260Publication, distribution, etc. (imprint) | London : Routledge, 2005 |
| 300Physical description | xx, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| 504Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520Summary, etc. |
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| 650Subject added entry – topical term |
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