Before Modern Humans
New Perspectives on the African Stone Age
This fascinating volume, assessing Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory, argues that the onset of the Middle Stone Age marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers. Inaugurating a paradigm shift in our understanding of modern human behavior, Grant McCall argues that this transition-related to the origins of &quote;home base&quote; residential site use-occurred in mosaic fashion over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. He concludes by proposing a model of brain evolution driven by increasing subsistence diversity and intensity against the backdrop of larger populations and P…
Mehr
CHF 44.50
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-315-43315-8
- EAN: 9781315433158
- Produktnummer: 20170163
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 390 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'568 KB
Über den Autor
Grant S. McCall is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Anthropology of Tulane University, USA.
11 weitere Werke von Grant S. McCall:
Strategies for Quantitative Research
New Perspectives on the African Stone Age
New Perspectives on the African Stone Age
Ebook (EPUB Format)
CHF 41.25
Strategies for Quantitative Research
New Perspectives on the African Stone Age
New Perspectives on the African Stone Age
Ebook (PDF Format)
CHF 41.25
Bewertungen
Anmelden