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Early Hominids

European Visions: American Voices
edited by Kim Sloan
John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the British Museum; engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1590 to illustrate Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, they informed and shaped Europe's view of America and its people for the next two centuries. This volume publishes a ...
Paperback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £40.00

Peninj: A Research Project on Human Origins (1995-2005)
edited by Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Luis Alcalá, and Luis Luque
The Early Pleistocene sediments of Peninj, west of Lake Natron (Tanzania), contain a wealth of archaeological and paleontological sites formed during the emergence of the genus Homo and the extinction of the last australopithecines. Peninj has preserved tantalizing evidence that hominids, living in an open savanna, were acquiring animal resources through predation. Evidence also suggests that hominids repeatedly visited points on the ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Casting the Net Wide: Papers in Honor of Glynn Isaac and His Approach to Human Origins Research
edited by Jeanne Sept and David Pilbeam
This collection of essays and tributes to Glynn Isaac marks the 26th anniversary of Glynns premature death on October 5th, 1985. These contributions document the work of many of Glynns colleagues students and collaborators, and reflect their continuing respect for a great scholar 304p (Oxbow Books in association with the American School of Prehistoric Research, 2011)
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Simulating Human Origins and Evolution
by Ken Wessen
The development of populations over time, and, on longer timescales, the evolution of species, are both influenced by a complex of interacting, underlying processes. Computer simulation provides a means of experimenting within an idealised framework to allow aspects of these processes and their interactions to be isolated, controlled, and understood. In this 2005 book, computer simulation is used to model migration, extinction, fossilisation, ...
Paperback. Price GB £29.99

The Incredible Human Journey
by Alice Roberts
Told in the style of a detective story, or travelogue, this book, which accompanied a BBC TV series, follows the contours of human evolution and the expansion over the earth's continents by modern humans. Using a lively first person style Alice Roberts narrates her own journey, following the trail of archaeological and DNA evidence, along the probable routes of human migration, explaining the science behind the theories, and interviewing the ...
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Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash
edited by Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel
The second volume in a series dedicated to fossil discoveries made in the Afar region of Ethiopia, this work contains the definitive description of the geological context and paleoenvironment of the early hominid Ardipithecus kadabba. This research by an international team describes Middle Awash late Miocene faunal assemblages recovered from sediments firmly dated to between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago. Compared to other assemblages of similar ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £55.00, Our Price GB £14.95

The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave
by Erella Hovers
This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple burials of early anatomically modern Homo sapiens (AMHs). The record from this region raises the question of possible long-term temporal overlap between early AMHs and Neanderthals. For this reason, Qafzeh has long been one of the pivotal sites in debates on the origins ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £60.00, Our Price GB £14.95

Guts and Brains: An Interactive Approach to the Hominin Record
edited by Wil Roebroeks
How did Humans evolve? Why do we have such large brains, and how can we afford the high energetic costs? The contributors to this volume focus on the suggestion that "we are what we eat", and that diet play a role in the evolution of a number of distinctive human characteristics. The volume draws together results from a wide range of disciplines, for example studies of foraging activities of hunter-gatherers compared with primates, the energy ...
Paperback. Price GB £27.50

The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age
edited by Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick
The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human lineage. The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age provides a critical look at early archaeological sites and their evidence. This volume also shows how a range of probing, multidisciplinary, ...
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Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body
by Mithen, Steven
Why do we listen to music? Why to we make music? Why do we enjoy it? An appreciation of music, if not a participation in making it, is a truly global phenomenon and, like dancing, is found among all cultures, so perhaps it is strange that so few people have sought to trace its origins. Much attention has been paid to the origins of language. but all too many scholars have seen music as an inconsequential aside. In this book Steven Mithen argues ...
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