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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457594003321

Titolo

The hominid individual in context : archaeological investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts / / edited by Clive Gamble and Martin Porr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-283-88233-7

1-134-45350-7

1-280-10248-9

0-203-00769-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GambleClive

PorrMartin

Disciplina

930.1/2

Soggetti

Paleolithic period

Fossil hominids

Human evolution

Social evolution

Hominids

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1 From empty spaces to lived lives exploring the individual in the Palaeolithic; 2 The Acheulean and the handaxe structure and agency in the Palaeolithic; 3 Transformations in dividuality personhood and palaeoliths in the Middle Pleistocene; 4 Seeking the Palaeolithic individual in East Africa and Europe during the Lower Middle Pleistocene; 5 The making of the biface and the making of the individual

6 Observations on the relationship between Palaeolithic individuals and artefact scatters at the Middle Pleistocene site of Boxgrove UK7 The natural and socio cultural environment of Homo erectus at Bilzingsleben Germany; 8 The Lower Palaeolithic art of hunting the case of Schöningen 13 II 4 Lower Saxony Germany; 9 Tracking hominins



during the last interglacial complex in the Rhineland; 10 Bones and powerful individuals faunal case studies from the Arctic and the European Middle Palaeolithic; 11 All in

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists now have for the study of our early ancestors.