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From Tools to Symbols : From Early Hominids to Modern Humans /
From Tools to Symbols represents an excellent synthesis of recent research on the origins of humankind, the evolution of the human brain and the emergence of modern human cultures from a number of disciplines. It is based on collaborative research by South African, French, American and German schola...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a From Tools to Symbols : |b From Early Hominids to Modern Humans / |c edited by Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda Backwell. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Baltimore, Maryland : |b Project Muse, |c 2019 | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2019 | |
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| 500 | |a "This book is the tangible outcome of a conference entitled From Tools to Symbols: From Early Hominids to Modern Humans, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, 16-18 March 2003"--Page ix. | ||
| 500 | |a "In honour of Professor Phillip V. Tobias." | ||
| 500 | |a Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Searching for common ground in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and genetics / Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda R. Backwell -- The history of a special relationship: prehistoric terminology and lithic technology between the French and South African research traditions / Nathan Schlanger -- Essential attributes of any technologically competent animal / Charles K. Brain -- Significant tools and signifying monkeys: the question of body techniques and elementary actions on matter among apes and early hominids / Frederic Joulian -- Tools and brains: which came first? / Phillip V. Tobias -- Environmental changes and hominid evolution: what the vegetation tells us / Marion K. Bamford -- Implications of the presence of African ape-like teeth in the miocene of Kenya / Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut -- Dawn of hominids: understanding the ape-hominid dichotomy / Brigitte Senut -- The impact of new excavations from the cradle of humankind on our understanding of the evolution of hominins and their cultures / Lee R. Berger -- Stone age signatures in northernmost South Africa: early archaeology in the Mapungubwe National Park vicinity / Kathleen Kuman -- Vertebral column, bipedalism and freedom of the hands / Dominque Gommery -- Characterising early Homo: cladistic, morphological and metrical analyses of the original Plio-Pleistocene specimen / Sandrine Prat -- Early Homo, 'robust' australopithecines and stone tools at Kromdraai, South Africa / Francis Thackeray and Jose Braga -- The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid cultural traditions / Lucinda Backwell and Francesco d'Errico -- Contribution of genetics to the study of human origins / Himla Soodyall and Trefor Jenkins -- An overview of the patterns of behavioural change in Africa and Eurasia during the middle and late pleistocene / Nichals J. Conard -- From the tropics to the colder climates: contrasting faunal exploitation adaptations of modern humans and Neanderthals / Curtis W. Marean -- New neighbours: interaction and image-making during the west European middle to upper Palaeolithic transition / David Lewis-Williams -- Late Mousterian lithic technology: its implications for the pace of the emergence of behavioural modernity and the relationship between behavioural modernity and biological modernity / Marie Soressi -- Exploring and quantifying technological differences between the MSA I, MSA II and Howieson's Poort at Klasies River / Sarah Wurz -- Stratigraphic integrity of the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave / Christopher Henshilwood -- Testing and demonstrating the stratigraphic integrity of artefacts of MSA deposits at Blomobs Cave, South Africa / Zenobia Jacobs -- From tool to symbol: the behavioural context of intentionally marked ostrich eggshell from Diepkloof, Western Cape / John Parkington -- Chronology of the Howieson's Poort and Still Bay techno-complexes: assessment and new data from luminescence / Chantal Tribolo, Norbert Mercier and Helen Vallada -- Subsistence strategies in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave: the microscopic evidence from stone tool residues / Bonny S. Williamson -- Speaking with beads: the evolutionary significance of personal ornaments / Marian Vanhaeren. | |
| 506 | |a Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. | ||
| 520 | |a From Tools to Symbols represents an excellent synthesis of recent research on the origins of humankind, the evolution of the human brain and the emergence of modern human cultures from a number of disciplines. It is based on collaborative research by South African, French, American and German scholars, and contains twenty-seven essays presented at a conference organized in 2003 in honor of the well-known palaeoanthropologist Phillip Tobias. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Tobias, Phillip V. |v Congresses. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Paleoclimatology |z South Africa |v Congresses. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Hominids |z South Africa |v Congresses. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Festschriften. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Backwell, Lucinda, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a D'Errico, Francesco, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Tobias, Phillip V., |e honoree. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse, |e distributor. | |
| 776 | 1 | 8 | |i Print version: |w (DLC) 2006376899 |z 9781868144341 |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/60538/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement VII | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Archaeology and Anthropology Supplement VII | ||