Hominid Individual in Context Archaeological Investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts

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Synopsis

This book explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists now have for the study of our early ancestors. 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 data preserving individual action among the stones and bones. The volume brings together examples from recent excavations such as Boxgrove, Schöningen and Blombos Cave and the analyses of artefacts from Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene excavations in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Book details

Author:
Clive Gamble, Martin Porr
ISBN:
9781134453498
Related ISBNs:
9780203007693, 9780415284332, 9780415284332, 9780415284325, 9780415284325
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-05-15
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2004
Copyright by:
Clive Gamble, Martin Porr 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies