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Author : Robert J. Blumenschine
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Scavenging Opportunities written by Robert J. Blumenschine and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 1986 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert John Blumenschine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Scavenging Opportunities written by Robert John Blumenschine and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Potts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351329278
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Activities at Olduvai written by Richard Potts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest sites at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania are among the best documented and most important for studies of human evolution. This book investigates the behavior of hominids at Olduvai using data of stone tools and animal bones, as well as the results of work in taphonomy (how animals become fossils), the behavior of mammals, and a wide range of ecological theory and data. By illustrating the ways in which modern and prehistoric evidence is used in making interpretations, the author guides the reader through the geological, ecological, and archeological areas involved in the study of humans.Based on his study of the Olduvai excavations, animal life, and stone tools, the author carefully examines conventional views and proposals about the early Olduvai sites. First, the evidence of site geology, tool cut marks, and other clues to the formation of the Olduvai sites are explored. On this basis, the large mammal communities in which early hominids lived are investigated, using methods which compare sites produced mainly by hominids with others made by carnivores. Questions about hominid hunting, scavenging, and the importance of eating meat are then scrutinized. The leading alternative positions on each issue are discussed, providing a basis for understanding some of the most contentious debates in paleo-anthropology today.The dominant interpretive model for the artifact and bone accumulations at Olduvai and other Plio-Pleistocene sites has been that they represent home bases, social foci similar to the campsites of hunter-gatherers. Based on paleo-ecological evidence and ecological models, the author critically analyzes the home base interpretation and proposes alternative views. A new view of the Olduvai sites - that they represent stone caches where hominids processed carcasses for food - is shown to have important implications for our understanding of hominid social behavior and evolution.
Author : Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061528
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites written by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olduvai Bed I archaeological sites have been at the epicenter of the debate on how early humans behaved. This book presents a new analytical approach that has produced unexpected results: the association of stone tools and faunal remains at most Olduvai Bed I sites is accidental and not related to hominid behavior. This revolutionary analysis shows that current models of reconstruction of human behavior are wrong.
Author : Guy Bar-Oz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494332
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Epipaleolithic Subsistence Strategies in the Levant written by Guy Bar-Oz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study concerns hunter-gatherer cultural and ecological succession during the Levantine Epipaleolithic. Detailed zooarchaeological and taphonomic studies provide a finer understanding of this cultural succession. Uniform patterns of food procurement and processing show cultural continuity in subsistence strategies within the period.
Author : Ravi Korisettar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134828551
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Early Human Behaviour in Global Context written by Ravi Korisettar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Human Behaviour in a Global Context will be of use to students and professionals who are interested in prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology, and paleoanthropology. Those interested in our ancestors and their place in the natural world will also benefit from the information presented in this book. Chapters focus on: * the nature of archaeological evidence * stone tool technology * subsistence practices * settlement distributions.
Author : D. Tab Rasmussen
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780867208573
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Evolution of Humans and Humanness written by D. Tab Rasmussen and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1993 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the proceedings of the Irving Stone Memorial Symposium on "The Origin of Humans and Humanness." Scientists in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, biology and ecology were invited to discuss their research concerning the how's, where's and why's of the evolutionary history of humans. Using our knowledge of the behavior and reproduction of living primates, chapter 1 describes what made the earliest human-like animals of 4 million years ago different from their ape relatives. While showing how the science of paleontology works, the origin of our genus, Homo, is discussed in chapter 2. With emphasis on those humans who first made regular use of stone tools some 2 million years ago, chapter 3 interprets ancient human behavior and ecology from an archeological perspective. Tools from genetics, molecular biology, archaeology and paleontology are used to examine the origin of modern Homo sapiens in chapter 4. Chapter 5 looks at the artistry of Ice Age craftsmen. Finally, using computer methods, chapter 6 delves into the complex issue of how does human behavior change, and what is the relationship between biological and cultural evolution?
Author : Peter S. Ungar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195183460
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Evolution of the Human Diet written by Peter S. Ungar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are interested in the evolution of hominin diets for several reasons. One is the fundamental concern over our present-day eating habits and the consequences of our societal choices, such as obesity prevalent in some cultures and starvation in others. Another is that humans have learned to feed themselves in extremely varied environments, and these adaptations, which are fundamentally different from those of our closest biological relatives, have to have had historical roots of varying depth. The third, and the reason why most paleoanthropologists are interested in this question, is that a species' trophic level and feeding adaptations can have a strong effect on body size, locomotion, "life history strategies", geographic range, habitat choice, and social behavior. Diet is key to understanding the ecology and evolution of our distant ancestors and their kin, the early hominins. A study of the range of foods eaten by our progenitors underscores just how unhealthy many of our diets are today. This volume brings together authorities from disparate fields to offer new insights into the diets of our ancestors. Paleontologists, archaeologists, primatologists, nutritionists and other researchers all contribute pieces to the puzzle. This volume has at its core four main sections: · Reconstructed diets based on hominin fossils--tooth size, shape, structure, wear, and chemistry, mandibular biomechanics · Archaeological evidence of subsistence--stone tools and modified bones · Models of early hominin diets based on the diets of living primates--both human and non-human, paleoecology, and energetics · Nutritional analyses and their implications for evolutionary medicine New techniques for gleaning information from fossil teeth, bones, and stone tools, new theories stemming from studies of paleoecology, and new models coming from analogy with modern humans and other primates all contribute to our understanding. When these approaches are brought together, they offer an impressive glimpse into the lives of our distant ancestors. The contributions in this volume explore the frontiers of our knowledge in each of these disciplines as they address the knowns, the unknowns, and the unknowables of the evolution of hominin diets.
Author : Stephen Shennan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134814488
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Human Ancestry written by Stephen Shennan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors? The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate their reconstructive methods. Contributors use observations of primates and modern hunter-gatherers to illuminate the fossil and artefactual records. Thematic treatment covers the evolution of group size; group composition and the emotional structure of social bonds; sexual dimorphism and the sexual division of labour; and the origins of human cultural traditions. The Archaeology of Human Ancestry is an essential introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduates and researchers in archaeology and biological anthropology. It will also be used by workers in psychology, sociology and feminist studies as a resource for understanding human social origins.
Author : Graham Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000063666
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Human Evolution written by Graham Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, Human Evolution looks at theories of the evolution of human behaviour (contemporary at the time of publication). The book reviews competing theories of psychological and social evolution and provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject. A key theoretical concern which emerges in the book includes the psychological significance of the human evolution issue itself. The period of human evolution covered ranges from the demise of the Miocene hominoids, to the emergence of ‘civilization’. Topics covered include: functions of ‘origin myths’, history of the study of human evolution, methods and data-bases, theories of the nature of ‘hominisation’, origins of bipedalism, language and tool-use, theories of social evolution, theories of cave art and the spread of Homo sapiens to America and Australia.
Author : Geoffrey A. Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280181X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on the Past written by Geoffrey A. Clark and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the Past shows how knowledge of the past is contingent and is largely determined by the social and intellectual milieu in which those who study it have received their training. In the original essays that comprise the volume, field archaeologists discuss their own biases and the effects these biases have on the way they conduct their research on hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean.
Author : Erella Hovers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402090609
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan written by Erella Hovers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins’ ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The appearance of stone tools has often been viewed as a threshold event, impacting directly and profoundly the later course of cultural and social evolution. Alternatively, it has been understood as a prelude to significant succeeding changes in behavioral, social and biological evolution of hominins. This book presents a series of recent enquiries into the technological and adaptive significance of Oldowan stone tools. While anchored in a long research tradition, these studies rely on recent discoveries and innovative analyses of the archaeological record of ca. 2.6–1.0 million years ago in Africa and Eurasia, dealing with the earliest lithic industries as manifestations of hominin adaptations and as expressions of hominin cognitive abilities.
Author : Craig B. Stanford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195351293
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Meat-Eating and Human Evolution written by Craig B. Stanford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins. Before 2.5 million years ago the presence and importance of meat in the hominid diet is unknown. After stone tools appear in the fossil record it seems clear that meat was eaten in increasing quantities, but whether it was obtained through hunting or scavenging remains a topic of intense debate. This book takes a novel and strongly interdisciplinary approach to the role of meat in the early hominid diet, inviting well-known researchers who study the human fossil record, modern hunter-gatherers, and nonhuman primates to contribute chapters to a volume that integrates these three perspectives. Stanford's research has been on the ecology of hunting by wild chimpanzees. Bunn is an archaeologist who has worked on both the fossil record and modern foraging people. This will be a reconsideration of the role of hunting, scavenging, and the uses of meat in light of recent data and modern evolutionary theory. There is currently no other book, nor has there ever been, that occupies the niche this book will create for itself.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191626155
Total Pages : 1361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology written by Peter Mitchell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.
Author : Marcella H. Sorg
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439821923
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Forensic Taphonomy written by Marcella H. Sorg and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-12-13 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Links have recently been established between the study of death assemblages by archaeologists and paleontologists (taphonomy) and the application of physical anthropology concepts to the medicolegal investigation of death (forensic anthropology). Forensic Taphonomy explains these links in a broad-based, multidisciplinary volume. It applies taphonomic models in modern forensic contexts and uses forensic cases to extend taphonomic theories. Review articles, case reports, and chapters on methodology round out this book's unique approach to forensic science.
Author : James S. Oliver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology written by James S. Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding early hominid behavioural ecology has been the subject of intense interest and remains a core issue in anthropology today. Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology reveals some of the latest research into this exciting and challenging area, with new looks at old questions. The central topics explored in this volume include early hominid habitat preference and land use, procurement and processing of food and lithic materials, the use of fire, competitive interactions with carnivores, social organization and cognitive skills. Innovative methods and recent data presented here will provide a fuller understanding of the evolutionary ecology of Plio-Pleistocene hominids. Most of the contributions to this volume evolved from papers presented at the Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology symposium, held at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Toronto, 1993. Contains papers from the Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology symposium Includes new behavioural ecology approaches to the reconstruction of hominid social systems and ecological behaviour Presents an exciting, modern area of anthropology
Author : Jamie L. Clark
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400767668
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins written by Jamie L. Clark and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent genetic data showing that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans have made it clear that deeper insight into the behavioral differences between these populations will be critical to understanding the rapid spread of modern humans and the demise of the Neanderthals. This volume, which brings together scholars who have worked with faunal assemblages from Europe, the Near East, and Africa, makes an important contribution to our broader understanding of Neanderthal extinction and modern human origins through its focus on variability in human hunting behavior between 70-25,000 years ago—a critical period in the later evolution of our species.
