Early Hominids & Human Evolution

Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants and the Origins of Language [Hardback]

Dean Falk (Author)

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ISBN: 9780465002191
Published by : Basic Books
Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Fal... .... Learn More

A view to a kill [Paperback]

G. L. Dusseldorp (Author)

£35.00

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

In Search of a Language for the Mind-Brain: Can the Multiple Perspectives be Unified? [Paperback]

Ocke-Schewn Bohn (Author); Albert Gjedde (Author); Anjum Saleemi (Author)

£22.95

ISBN: 9788779340053
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: (The Dolphin, 33)
What is human nature? How is language related to thought -- and should the connection be investigated socially or scientifically? Is external reality coherent or fragmented? What are the foundations of rationality, and how trustworthy are they? Su... .... Learn More

Miss Layard Excavates: the Palaeolithic site at Foxhall Road, Ipswich, 1903-1905 [Hardback]

Mark White (Author); Steven Plunkett (Author)

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ISBN: 9780953541881
Published by : Western Academic & Specialist Press
Between 1903 and 1905 Miss Nina Frances Layard conducted exemplary excavations of an outstanding Palaeolithic site on plateau gravels above Ipswich. Here, Palaeolithic humans gathered around the edges of an erstwhile lake and/or river, leaving ... .... Learn More

Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor [Paperback]

Naama Goren-Inbar (Author); John D. Speth (Author)

£40.00

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ISBN: 9781842171554
Published by : Oxbow Books

Few areas of the world have played as prominent a role in human evolution as the Levantine Corridor, a comparatively narrow strip of land sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea on the west and the expanse of inhospitable desert to the east.... .... Learn More

Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the European Landscape during the Last Glaciation: Archaeological results of The Stage 3 Project [Hardback]

Tjeerd Van Andel (Author); Tjeerd H. Van Andel (Author); William Davies (Author)

£35.00

ISBN: 9781902937212
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: MEDIEVAL CHURCH STUDIES
What role did Ice Age climate play in the demise of the Neanderthals, and why was it that modern humans alone survived? For the past seven years a team of international experts from a wide range of disciplines have worked together to provide a ... .... Learn More

The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'akov, Israel: 1, The Wood Assemblage [Hardback]

Naama Goren-Inbar (Author); Ella Werker (Author); Craig S. Feibel (Author)

£45.00

ISBN: 9781842170724
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Gesher Benot YaÆaqov Monograph Series
Volume: 1
Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, located in the Dead Sea Rift valley, is one of the oldest non-African sites to have yielded evidence for the activities of groups of hominin hunter-gatherers. The excavations recovered thousands of Acheulian period stone t... .... Learn More

Human Roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene [Hardback]

Larry Barham (Author); Kate Robson-Brown (Author)

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ISBN: 9780953541843
Published by : Western Academic & Specialist Press
Sixteen papers taken from a `Human Roots' meeting held in Bristol in 2000 that focused on the question of `how different were humans and human behaviour in Africa and the Far east during the Middle Pleistocene'? The contributors draw on evidenc... .... Learn More

A Very Remote Period Indeed: Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe [Hardback]

Sarah Milliken (Author); Jill Cook (Author)

£60.00

ISBN: 9781842170564
Published by : Oxbow Books
This is a volume no Palaeolithic archaeologist should be without. It is offered to Derek Roe by his friends and colleagues as a tribute to his enthusiasm, support and encouragement over many years. The twenty-seven papers range from Africa to t... .... Learn More

From Forager to Farmer in Flint: A Lithic Analysis of the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture in Southern Scandinavia [Hardback]

Michael Stafford (Author)

£22.95

ISBN: 9788772887425
Published by : Aarhus University Press
The transition from foraging to farming in prehistoric Denmark has been a topic of debate over the past sixty years. Michael Stafford contributes to this discussion via an analysis of stone tools from several well-known sites in Denmark spanning t... .... Learn More