Early Hominids & Human Evolution
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Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants and the Origins of Language [Hardback]
Dean Falk (Author)
Regular Price: £17.99
Special Price: £6.95
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
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 -
Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor [Paperback]
Naama Goren-Inbar (Author); John D. Speth (Author)
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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. The ... .... 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)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
A Very Remote Period Indeed: Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe [Hardback]
Sarah Milliken (Author); Jill Cook (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 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)
£22.95ISBN: 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 -
Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization [Paperback]
Clive Gamble (Author)
Regular Price: £14.99
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ISBN: 9780750932776
Published by : Sutton Publishing Ltd
Series: EV-THEO
Human evolution tends to be understood in terms of a development from inferior to superior, primitive to advanced, the simple to the complex. In this book Gamble attempts to dispel some of the myths and distortions that this way of perceiving t... .... Learn More -
Early Man in the Soviet Union [Paperback]
C. B. M. McBurney (Author)
Regular Price: £5.00
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ISBN: 9780197257319
Published by : British Academy
Series: EV-BOD
McBurney's fully illustrated lecture on the expansion of humans into the north of the Eurasian landmass reflects research developments made during the 1960s and 1970s into climatic history and ecology, archaeological discoveries and the establ... .... Learn More -
Masters of the Planet [Paperback]
Ian Tattersall (Author)
Regular Price: £11.99
Special Price: £6.00
ISBN: 9781137278302
Published by : Macmillan Distribution Ltd
Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species dist... .... Learn More
