Grant S. McCall

Before Modern Humans (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives on the African Stone Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating volume reviews Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory and presents a model in which the onset of the Middle Stone Age (before 285,000 years ago) marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315433158
• Artikelnr.: 45260679

Autorenporträt

Grant S. McCall is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Anthropology of Tulane University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Stone Tool Technology and the Organizational Approach
3 The Organization of Early Stone Age Lithic Technology
4 The Organization of Middle Stone Age (MSA) Lithic Technology
5 Fear and Loathing in Paleolithic Faunal Analysis
6 Implications of Lower and Middle Pleistocene Faunal Assemblage
Composition
7 Implications of Lower and Middle Pleistocene Hominin Bone Modification
Patterns
8 Alternative Perspectives on Hominin Biological Evolution and Ecology
9 Conclusion