Mark J. White (Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Durham Univ

A Global History of The Earlier Palaeolithic

Assembling the Acheulean World, 1673-2020s

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of both the ancient humans who made handaxes and the thoughts and ideas of scholars who have spent their lives trying to understand them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 602
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9781032263403
• ISBN-10: 1032263407
• Artikelnr.: 63264909

Autorenporträt

Mark J. White is Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Durham University, where he has taught since 1999. He specialises in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods, and is the author of more than 120 academic papers and seven books, including The British Palaeolithic (Routledge 2012) and William Boyd Dawkins and the Victorian Science of Cave Hunting (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Making Of An Archaeological Icon
Chapter 2: Enlightening Deep History, 1673-1859
Chapter 3: Inventing the Palaeolithic, 1859-1872
Chapter 4: The Fall and Rise of the Acheulean, 1873-1900
Chapter 5: Palaeolithic Series and Pleistocene Sequences, 1900-1918
Chapter 6: The Global Culture-History of the Lower Palaeolithic 1919-1939
Chapter 7: Cold Reflections on the Palaeolithic, 1940-1962
Chapter 8: New Perspectives in Archaeology: Process, Adaptation and Behaviour 1962-1980
Chapter 9: Not Very Much Like US: Frames of Reference for a Processual Palaeolithic, 1980-1999
Chapter 10: Social Archaeology and The Millennial Handaxe, 1994-2020
Chapter 11: A Future Shaped by the Past.