Early Hominids & Human Evolution
The study of human origins: evolution, early hominids, neanderthals, homo sapiens.
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Where the Last Neanderthals Lived: A Study of Neanderthal and Modern Human Behavioural Ecology in a Glacial Refugium [Hardback]
Clive Finlayson (Editor); D. Francisco Giles Pacheco (Editor); Joaquin Rodriguez Vidal (Editor)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781842172650
Published by : Oxbow Books
Gorham's Cave, at the southern end of the Rock of Gibraltar, is a large cavern that sits close to the Mediterranean coast in full view of North Africa. The cave is rich in archaeological deposits and evidence of Neanderthal occupation, dating b... .... Learn More -
Quaternary History and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Axe Valley at Broom, South West England [Hardback]
C. P. Green (Editor); Robert Hosfield (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781842175200
Published by : Oxbow Books
This investigation of the Lower Palaeolithic site at Broom, Devon, highlights the huge potential of old sites and the importance of the archaeological and geological legacy resulting from more than 150 years of field investigation... .... Learn More -
Palaeopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination [Hardback]
Christopher Collins (Author)
£24.00ISBN: 9780231160926
Published by : Columbia University Press
Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective proc... .... Learn More -
From Primitives to Primates: A History of Ethnographic and Primatological Analogies in the Study of Prehistory [Paperback]
David Van Reybrouck (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9789088900952
Published by : Sidestone Press
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th cen... .... Learn More -
Pterosaurs: Flying Contemporaries of the Dinosaurs [Paperback]
Andre J Veldmeijer (Author); Mark Witton (Author); Ilja Nieuwland (Author)
£41.00ISBN: 9789088900938
Published by : Sidestone Press
Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 m... .... Learn More -
How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies [Hardback]
Dwight D Read (Author)
£67.95ISBN: 9781598745887
Published by : Left Coast Press
What separates modern humans from our primate cousinsare we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, tak... .... Learn More -
How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies [Paperback]
Dwight D Read (Author)
£20.95ISBN: 9781598745894
Published by : Left Coast Press
What separates modern humans from our primate cousinsare we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, tak... .... Learn More -
Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins [Hardback]
John Reader (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780199276851
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is a fully updated and substantially expanded and rewritten new edition of John Reader's classic 1981 book of the same name. In it he describes the discoveries and breakthroughs which have advanced our understanding of human evolution, and... .... Learn More -
Unravelling the Palaeolithic: Ten years of research at the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO, University of Southampton) [Paperback]
Karen Ruebens (Editor); Rachel Bynoe (Editor); Iza Romanowska (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9781407309958
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2400
Papers from the 2011 conference marking ten years of Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO, University of Southampton). Contents: Introduction (Clive Gamble); 1) Lower Palaeolithic of Central and Eastern Europe: Critical Re-evaluation ... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry [Paperback]
James Steele (Author); Stephen Shennan (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780415642941
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Ominously subtitled `Power, sex and tradition', this collection of seventeen essays by archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out methods for reconstructing the social systems and cultural traditions of our early ancestors. Contribu... .... Learn More