Early Hominids & Human Evolution

ISBN: 9781842173824
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PREHISTORIC RESEARCH MONOGRAPH
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 ha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306032
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Papers from Sessions C06, C08, C14, C62 and WS32 grouped as 'Humans: Evolution and Environment' from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Authenticity in ancient human mitochondrial DNA studies: A review (Rafae... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780316070089
Published by : Little, Brown and Company
An accessible account of the discovery and analysis of Ida, an astonishingly complete 47 million year old primate fossil, and its implications for human evolution. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700160984
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Mitteilungen der Kommission für Quartärforschung
Volume: 16
An interdisciplinary research project on the detection and analysis of Holocene avalanches in the Zillertaler Alps, Austria. Chapters focus on spatial analysis and geo-spatial distribution and the detection, simulation and interpretation of act... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900204
Published by : Sidestone Press
The sophistication of Neanderthal behavioural strategies have been the subject of debate from the moment of their recognition as a separate species of hominin in 1856. This book presents a study on Neanderthal foraging prowess. Novel ethnograph... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700138815
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission
Volume: 67
In the course of mining for loess, around 1900 large numbers of Palaeolithic artefacts were found at the so-called Hundssteig in Krems. These were evaluated as being 35,000-year-old Aurignacian relics.
A century later, a large-scale constr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781845371654
Published by : New Holland Publishing
The origins of humankind lie in Africa, where fossil evidence reaches back over six million years to a time when we shared a common ancestor with the chimpanzees. We are now the only remaining human species alive on Earth, and there are over si... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780743296205
When Michael J. Behe's first book, Darwin's Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers and a growing number of scientists were intrigued by Behe's claim th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781902937465
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: MCDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
Arising from a conference Rethinking the Human Revolution reconsiders all of the central issues in modern human behavioural, cognitive, biological and demographic origins in the light of new information and new theoretical perspectives which ... .... Learn More