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Hominid Individual in Context: Archaeological Investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts

By Clive Gamble , Martin Porr

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
ISBN
9780415284325, 0415284325
LCC
GN771 .I53 2005
Open Library ID
OL3293926M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11305514 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
347\347
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Time added
2010-11-21 21:13:21

Description

This book explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists now have for the study of our early ancestors. Rather than explaining the archaeology of stones and bones as the product of group decisions, the contributors investigate how individual action created social life. This challenge to the accepted standpoint of the Palaeolithic brings new models and theories into the period; innovations that are matched by the resolution of data preserving individual action among the stones and bones. The volume brings together examples from recent excavations such as Boxgrove, Schöningen and Blombos Cave and the analyses of artefacts from Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene excavations in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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