Social life of early man / / edited by Sherwood L. Washburn

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (602 p.)
• Disciplina: 314
• Soggetto topico: Prehistoric peoples; Primates - Behavior
• Altri autori: WashburnS. L <1911-2000.> (Sherwood Larned)
• Note generali: First published in 1962 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Introduction; Table of Contents; Patterns of Social Grouping Among Wild Primates; Grouping Among Primate Families; Lemuroidea; Lemuridae; Indridae; Daubentoniidae; Lorisoidea; Tarsioidea; Ceboidea; Aotinae; Pithecinae; Alouattinae; Cebinae; Atelinae; Callimiconidae; Hapalidae; Cercopithfcoidea; Cercopithecinae; Colobinae; Hominoidea; Conclusions; Bibliography; Behavior and Ways of Life of the Fossil Primates; Prosimians; The Subfossil Lemurs of Madagascar; Cercopithecoidea; Pongidae ; The Genus PliopithecusThe Genus Dryopithecus; The Pongids of Kenya: Limnopithecus and Proconsul; Bibliography; The Nature and Special Features of the Instinctive Social Bond of Primates; Origin of the Social Bond; Form of the Social Bond; Intensity of Social Conflict; Nature of the Social Bond; The Context of Bond-Forming Behavior; Special Features of the Bond-Forming Situation; Anlage of Concept-Formation; Anlage of Tool-Using; Addendum; Bibliography; The Evolution of Territorial Behavior; I. The Act of Sitting and its Anatomical Structure; II. Methods of Territorial Demarcation ; III. Social AspectsIV. Elements of Speech; V. Territory; Summary; Bibliography; Some Factors Influencing the Social Life of Primates in General and of Early Man in Particular; Bibliography; Social Behavior of Baboons and Early Man; Troop Size; Range; Diet; Population Structure; Subgroups and Play; Mother-Child Relations; Sexual Behavior; Economic Dependence; Dominance; Home Base; Sounds and Gestures; Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Notes on the Mentality of Primitive Man; Bibliography; Some Evidence for the Ideologies of Early Man; I. The Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic ; II. Early and Late Neanderthal ManIII. The Pithecanthropian Races; Bibliography; The Social Life of Early Paleolithic Man as Seen through the Work of the Soviet Anthropologists; Preliminary Observations; Classification of the Hominids; The Evolution of Homo Sapiens; Formation of Homo Sapiens; Ideas Regarding the Primitive Human Groups: An Attempt at a Factual Survey; The Separation of Man from the Animal World; Bibliography; Acquisition of Anatomical Knowledge by Ancient Man; Development of Human Anatomical Knowledge in the Aleutian Islands; Method of Description ; Sources of Aleut Anatomical KnowledgeApplication of Anatomical Information; Projections of Anatomical Orientation; Sources of Anatomical Information Among the Mano and the Tungus; Factors in the Underestimation of Primitive Knowledge; Unreconstructable Aspects; Protohominid Continuities; The Argument from Contemporary Distribution; Summary; Bibliography; On Man's Use of Fire, with Comments on Tool-making and Hunting; Use of Fire; Earliest Evidence of the use of Fire; Addendum; Man as Tool-Maker; Bibliography; The Social Life of Spanish Paleolithic Hunters as Shown by Levantine Art ; I. The Difficulty of Coming to Socioeconomic Conclusions from Archaeological Data
• Sommario/riassunto: Attempting to reconstruct the life of early societies, particular emphasis is laid upon social behaviour among primates, as well as approaches from ethnology, prehistoric archaeology, geography, genetics, human stress biology and psychology.<BR> First published in 1962.
• Titolo autorizzato: Social life of early man
• ISBN: 1-136-54368-6; 0-415-86661-8; 1-315-01776-8; 1-136-54361-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817377303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Anthropology and ethnography.