Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 574 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781868146376
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1868146375
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9781776142293
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1776142292
Content:
This collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of collaborative research of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Searching for common ground in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and genetics / Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda R. Backwell -- The history of a special relationship: prehistoric terminology and lithic technology between the French and South African research traditions / Nathan Schlanger -- Essential attributes of any technologically competent animal / Charles K. Brain -- Significant tools and signifying monkeys: the question of body techniques and elementary actions on matter among apes and early hominids / Frederic Joulian -- Tools and brains: which came first? / Phillip V. Tobias -- Environmental changes and hominid evolution: what the vegetation tells us / Marion K. Bamford -- Implications of the presence of African ape-like teeth in the miocene of Kenya / Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut -- Dawn of hominids: understanding the ape-hominid dichotomy / Brigitte Senut -- The impact of new excavations from the cradle of humankind on our understanding of the evolution of hominins and their cultures / Lee R. Berger -- Stone age signatures in northernmost South Africa: early archaeology in the Mapungubwe National Park vicinity / Kathleen Kuman -- Vertebral column, bipedalism and freedom of the hands / Dominque Gommery -- Characterising early Homo: cladistic, morphological and metrical analyses of the original Plio-Pleistocene specimen / Sandrine Prat -- Early Homo, 'robust' australopithecines and stone tools at Kromdraai, South Africa / Francis Thackeray and Jose Braga.
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The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid cultural traditions / Lucinda Backwell and Francesco d'Errico -- Contribution of genetics to the study of human origins / Himla Soodyall and Trefor Jenkins -- An overview of the patterns of behavioural change in Africa and Eurasia during the middle and late pleistocene / Nichals J. Conard -- From the tropics to the colder climates: contrasting faunal exploitation adaptations of modern humans and Neanderthals / Curtis W. Marean -- New neighbours: interaction and image-making during the west European middle to upper Palaeolithic transition / David Lewis-Williams -- Late Mousterian lithic technology: its implications for the pace of the emergence of behavioural modernity and the relationship between behavioural modernity and biological modernity / Marie Soressi -- Exploring and quantifying technological differences between the MSA I, MSA II and Howieson's Poort at Klasies River / Sarah Wurz -- Stratigraphic integrity of the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave / Christopher Henshilwood -- Testing and demonstrating the stratigraphic integrity of artefacts of MSA deposits at Blomobs Cave, South Africa / Zenobia Jacobs -- From tool to symbol: the behavioural context of intentionally marked ostrich eggshell from Diepkloof, Western Cape / John Parkington -- Chronology of the Howieson's Poort and Still Bay techno-complexes: assessment and new data from luminescence / Chantal Tribolo, Norbert Mercier and Helen Vallada -- Subsistence strategies in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave: the microscopic evidence from stone tool residues / Bonny S. Williamson -- Speaking with beads: the evolutionary significance of personal ornaments / Marian Vanhaeren.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1868144178
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781868144174
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1868144348
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781868144341
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe From tools to symbols Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 2005
Language:
English
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