Early Hominids & Human Evolution
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An Enquiring Mind: Studies in Honor of Alexander Marshack [Hardback]
Paul Bahn (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
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ISBN: 9781842173831
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph
Alexander Marshack single-handedly revolutionized the field of Paleolithic art research. His astounding photographs of portable art objects caused us to see them with fresh eyes, to ask new questions, and to understand their technology and prod... .... Learn More -
Ardipithecus kadabba [Hardback]
Yohannes Haile-Selassie (Author); Giday WoldeGabriel (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520254404
Published by : University of California Press
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 res... .... Learn More -
Peninj: A Research Project on Human Origins (1995-2005) [Hardback]
Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo (Author); Luis Alcalá (Author); Luis Luque (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 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 -
Link [Hardback]
Colin Tudge (Author)
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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 -
European Visions [Paperback]
Kim Sloan (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861591725
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 172
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 illustr... .... Learn More -
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)
£35.00ISBN: 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)
£22.95ISBN: 9788779340053
Published by : Aarhus University Press
What is human nature? How is language related to thought - and should the connection be investigated socially or biologically? Is external reality coherent or fragmented? What, if any, are the foundations of rationality, and how trustworthy are... .... 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)
£40.00ISBN: 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. The ... .... Learn More
