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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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| Otros Autores: | , |
| 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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.