HOMINID INDIVIDUAL IN CONTEXT by Clive Gamble (Editor), Martin Porr (Editor) ( 9780415284332 )

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HOMINID INDIVIDUAL IN CONTEXT

By:

Clive Gamble (Editor), Martin Porr (Editor)

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Paperback

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0415284333

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9780415284332

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

5 January, 2005

Pages:

352

Description:

Explores approaches to the detailed information that archaeologists have for the study of our early ancestors. Rather than explaining the archaeology of stones and bones as the product of group decisions, this book investigates how individual action created social life.

Synopsis:

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, Schoningen and Blombos Cave and the analyses of artefacts from Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene excavations in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Illustrations:

20 black & white illustrations, 32 black & white tables, 55 black & white

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Routledge

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