Landscapes of Human Evolution: Contributions in Honour of John Gowlett – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781789693799,1789693799, 9781789693805, 1789693802

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1789693802
• ISBN-13: 9781789693805
• Author: James Cole, John McNabb, Matt Grove, Rob Hosfield

Landscapes of Human Evolution is an edited volume in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo, and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art. John is also a leader in investigating the early history of fire use and control in relation to social action and hominin communication. Landscapes of Human Evolution seeks to mirror John’s research profile and explores some of the most recent thinking regarding human evolution from the biological and cognitive development of our human ancestors, to the behavioural adaptations necessary to survive changing Pleistocene landscapes and environments. Specifically, Landscapes of Human Evolution focuses on the development of large hominin brains and bipedal locomotion; hominin interactions with landscape; and the amplification of complex hominin behaviours and social structures from the control of fire through to changing lithic technologies. Such an overview of the development of human ancestral species from a biological, cognitive, social, and behavioural perspective is particularly timely given the many recent advances in our understanding of the complexities of human evolution.

Table contents:

1. Foreword
2. Brain Size Evolution in the Hominin Clade
3. Australopithecus or Homo? The postcranial evidence
4. Evolutionary Diversity and Adaptation in Early Homo
5. Rift Dynamics and Archaeological Sites: Acheulean Land Use in Geologically Unstable Settings
6. How many handaxes make an Acheulean? A case study from the SHK-Annexe site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
7. An Acheulian Balancing Act: A Multivariate Examination of Size and Shape in Handaxes from Amanzi Springs, Eastern Cape, South Africa
8. Reflections on Possible Zoomorphic Acheulean bifaces from Southwestern Algeria
9. Variable cognition in the evolution of Homo: biology and behaviour in the African Middle Stone Age
10. Initial source evaluation of archaeological obsidian from Middle Stone Age site Kilombe GqJ h3 West 200, Kenya, East Africa
11. The eternal triangle of human evolution
12. Climate, Fire and the Biogeography of Palaeohominins
13. Fire, the Hearth (ocak) and Social Life: examples from an Alevi community in Anatolia
14. From Specialty to Specialist: a citation analysis of Evolutionary Anthropology, Palaeolithic Archaeology and the work of John Gowlett 1970-2018

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