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Landscapes of Human Evolution : Contributions in Honour of John Gowlett.

Cole, James.

Landscapes of Human Evolution : Contributions in Honour of John Gowlett. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (212 pages)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- Foreword -- James Cole, John McNabb, Matt Grove and Rob Hosfield -- A Good Man in Africa: John Gowlett's Writings on Africa and its Hominin Archaeology from the late 1970s to the early 2000s -- John McNabb -- Brain Size Evolution in the Hominin Clade -- Andrew Du and Bernard Wood -- Australopithecus or Homo? The postcranial evidence -- Robin Huw Crompton -- Evolutionary Diversity and Adaptation in Early Homo -- Alan Bilsborough and Bernard Wood -- Rift Dynamics and Archaeological Sites: Acheulean Land Use in Geologically Unstable Settings -- Simon Kübler, Geoff Bailey, Stephen Rucina, Maud Devès and Geoffrey C.P. King -- How many handaxes make an Acheulean? A case study from the SHK-Annexe site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- Ignacio de la Torre and Rafael Mora -- An Acheulian Balancing Act: A Multivariate Examination of Size and Shape in Handaxes from Amanzi Springs, Eastern Cape, South Africa -- Matthew V. Caruana and Andy I. R. Herries -- Reflections on Possible Zoomorphic Acheulean bifaces from Southwestern Algeria -- Thomas Wynn, Mohamed Sahnouni, Tony Berlant and Claude Douce -- Variable cognition in the evolution of Homo: biology and behaviour in the African Middle Stone Age -- Robert A. Foley and Marta Mirazón Lahr -- Initial source evaluation of archaeological obsidian from Middle Stone Age site Kilombe GqJh3 West 200, Kenya, East Africa -- The eternal triangle of human evolution -- Clive Gamble -- Climate, Fire and the Biogeography of Palaeohominins -- Fire, the Hearth (ocak) and Social Life: examples from an Alevi community in Anatolia -- David Shankland -- From Specialty to Specialist: a citation analysis of Evolutionary Anthropology, Palaeolithic Archaeology and the work of John Gowlett 1970-2018 -- Anthony Sinclair -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack. _ENREF_1 -- _ENREF_2 -- _ENREF_3 -- _ENREF_4 -- _ENREF_5 -- _ENREF_6 -- _ENREF_7 -- _ENREF_8 -- _ENREF_9 -- _ENREF_10 -- _ENREF_11 -- _ENREF_12 -- _ENREF_13 -- _ENREF_14 -- _ENREF_15 -- _ENREF_16 -- _ENREF_17 -- _ENREF_18 -- _ENREF_19 -- _ENREF_20 -- _ENREF_21 -- _ENREF_22 -- _ENREF_23 -- _ENREF_24 -- _ENREF_25 -- _ENREF_26 -- _ENREF_27 -- _ENREF_28 -- _ENREF_29 -- _ENREF_30 -- _ENREF_31 -- _ENREF_32 -- _ENREF_33 -- _ENREF_34 -- _ENREF_35 -- _ENREF_36 -- _ENREF_37 -- _ENREF_38 -- _ENREF_39 -- _ENREF_40 -- _ENREF_41 -- _Hlk493748087 -- _Hlk491583993 -- _Hlk491583954 -- _Hlk492021416 -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack -- _GoBack.

Fourteen papers are presented here 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.

9781789693805


Hominids-Evolution.


Electronic books.

GN2 / .L363 2020

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