Clive Gamble / Martin Porr (eds.)

Hominid Individual in Context

Archaeological Investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts
Herausgeber: Gamble, Clive; Porr, Martin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780415284325
• ISBN-10: 0415284325
• Artikelnr.: 21518338

Autorenporträt

Clive Gamble is Professor of Geography in the Centre for Quaternary Research at Royal Holloway, University of London. He spent many years at the University of Southampton, where he founded the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins. He is the author of many books, including Archaeology, The Basics (Routledge, 2001), and The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe (1999). Martin Porr is based at the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle, Germany. There he has been involved as a project manager for the high-profile exhibition of the Bronze Age Sky Disc of Nebra, in co-operation with the National Museum of Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 From Empty Spaces to Lived Lives
Clive Gamble
Martin Porr; Chapter 2 The Acheulean and the Handaxe
Terry Hopkinson
Mark J. White; Chapter 3 Transformations in Dividuality
A. S. Field; Chapter 4 Seeking the Palaeolithic Individual in East Africa and Europe During the Lower-Middle Pleistocene
J. A. J. Gowlett; Chapter 5 The Making of the Biface and the Making of the Individual
Martin Porr; Chapter 6 Observations on the Relationship Between Palaeolithic Individuals and Artefact Scatters at the Middle Pleistocene Site of Boxgrove
UK
Matt Pope
Mark Roberts; Chapter 7 The Natural and Socio-Cultural Environment of Homo Erectus at Bilzingsleben
Germany
Dietrich Mania
Ursula Mania; Chapter 8 The Lower Palaeolithic Art of Hunting
Hartmut Thieme; Chapter 9 Tracking Hominins During the Last Interglacial Complex in the Rhineland
D. S. Adler
N. J. Conard; Chapter 10 Bones and Powerful Individuals
Clive Gamble
Sabine Gaudzinski; Chapter 11 All in a Day's Work
Anthony Sinclair
John McNabb; Chapter 12 Life and Mind in the Acheulean
Michael D. Petraglia
Ceri Shipton
K. Paddayya; Chapter 13 Individuals Among Palimpsest Data
Robert Hosfield; Chapter 14 Being Modern in the Middle Stone Age
C. Henshilwood
F. d'Errico; Chapter 15 Concluding Remarks
Marcia-Anne Dobres;