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Book SynopsisThe history has resurrected from northern Europe's bogs several men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept intact by the chemical properties of peat. Offering an account of their modern afterlives, this title argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary cultural journey.Trade Review"What a wonderful, wonderful book this is. I absolutely loved Bodies in the Bog and everything about it, from the thoughtful approach and beautiful writing to the well-contextualized discussions of bog bodies in psychology, poetry, art, museum display, and facial reconstruction. A truly interdisciplinary study clearly based on years of passionate research, it offers a rich and nuanced explanation of what makes these bodies so fascinating, appealing, and troubling." - Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton"

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Book SynopsisOffers a social history of Chinese paleoanthropology and a cultural - and at times comparative - history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human. Focusing on issues that push against the boundaries of science and politics, this book offers an innovative approach to modern Chinese history and the history of science.Trade Review"This is one of the few books on science in twentieth-century China, a burgeoning area of research, and the first book on popular science in China. The People's Peking Man unquestionably breaks new ground." - Fa-ti Fan, Binghamton University"

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Book SynopsisTracing mankind's evolution from the birth of life on Earth three billion years ago to the emergence of modern human beings, this volume explains how the field of evolutionary study has been aided by research in comparative anatomy and molecular biology.Table of ContentsHumanity and us; a long story, briefly told; prosimians - types and collateral branches; Africa - the original home?; Micoene lady; the fork in the road; hominids before homo; animals and humans; the ape-man; humans in the European Ice Age; us; the present and the future.

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Book SynopsisThin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of disciplines to reach a cohesive theory behind Neandertal low population densities and relatively low rate of technological innovation. The book highlights and contrasts the differences between Neandertals and early modern humans and explores the morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptive solutions which led to the extinction of the Neandertals and the population expansion of modern humans. Written by a world recognized expert in physical anthropology, Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archaeology and Ecology will be a must have title for anyone interested in the rise and fall of the Neandertals.Trade Review“This book should serve both as a comprehensive introduction to the debate and as a timely stimulus to new research.” (Antiquity, 1 August 2015)Table of ContentsSeries Introduction ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Chapter 1 Thin on the Ground: Population Density and Technological Innovation 1 Note 7 Chapter 2 The Neandertals in Time and Space 9 2.1 Geographic and Temporal Boundaries 10 2.2 Defining the Neandertals 13 2.3 Neandertal DNA 27 2.4 Neandertal Taxonomy 30 2.5 Regional and Temporal Variation in Neandertal Morphology 30 2.6 The Evolutionary History of the Neandertals 32 Notes 39 Chapter 3 Neandertal Material Culture 41 3.1 Neandertal-associated Lithic Industries 42 3.2 Variation in the Eurasian Middle Paleolithic: Technology as Adaptive Interface 53 3.3 Composite Technology, and the Archeologically Less-visible Component of Technology 59 3.4 Subsistence Technology 61 3.5 Domestic Technology 67 Notes 69 Chapter 4 The Body Neandertal 71 4.1 Neandertal Body Size: Short but Massive 72 4.2 Body Composition: “Scaled Up” Inuit? 79 4.3 The Cost of Size: Feeding a Large Body and Large Brain 82 4.3.1 Nutrition and Somatic Maintenance: Neandertal Bodies were Energetically Costly 83 4.3.2 Nutrition and Reproduction: Were Neandertal Mothers Like Polar Bears? 92 4.3.3 Dietary Shortfalls: Hard and Lean Winters 97 4.4 The Benefits of Size: Neandertal Body Size in Ecological Context 99 Notes 104 Chapter 5 Surviving the Cold 107 5.1 How Cold Was It? 108 5.1.1 Cold–Temperate Conditions (MIS 5d-a and 3) 109 5.1.2 Cold Glacial Conditions (MIS 6 and 4) 111 5.2 Human Adaptation to the Cold 114 5.3 Cold Adaptation and Neandertal Morphology 117 5.3.1 The Survival Value of Neandertal Body Form 124 5.3.2 Craniofacial Morphology and Cold Adaptation 129 5.4 Physiological Solutions to Cold Stress 137 5.5 Cold Stress and Neandertal Behavior 141 5.5.1 Activity 141 5.5.2 Extrasomatic Heat Production and Conservation: Fire, Shelter and Clothing 142 5.6 Thermogenic Capacity and Cold Tolerance 146 5.7 The Neandertals Were Cold-adapted 148 Notes 149 Chapter 6 The Caloric Economy of Pleistocene Europe 151 6.1 Issues in the Reconstruction of Past Environments 152 6.2 Pleistocene Biomes of Europe and Western Asia 157 6.2.1 Interglacial Europe: Marine Isotope Stages 7 and 5e 159 6.2.2 Productivity and Edible Resources of Interglacial Environments 162 6.2.3 Temperate Interglacial Europe: Marine Isotope Stages 5d–a and 3 169 6.2.4 Cold Steppic Europe: Marine Isotope Stages 6 and 4 173 Notes 175 Chapter 7 Neandertals as Consumers 179 7.1 Analysis of Food Residues: The Macromammal Component of Neandertal Diet 181 7.2 Analysis of Food Residues: The Small Animal Data 187 7.3 Analysis of Food Residues: Macrobotanical Remains 191 7.4 Dental Wear and Food Residues on Teeth 194 7.5 Stable Isotope and Trace Element Analyses 200 7.6 The Thorny Issue of Cannibalism 214 7.7 The Trophic Ecology of Neandertals 216 Notes 218 Chapter 8 Red in Tooth and Claw: Neandertals as Predators 219 8.1 Neandertal Morphology and Predation 220 8.1.1 Scapular Glenoid Fossa 222 8.1.2 Elbow Joint Morphology 224 8.1.3 Superior Pubic Ramus Length 226 8.1.4 Humeral Diaphyseal Cross-sectional Geometry 226 8.1.5 Entheseal (Muscle Marking) Morphology 233 8.2 Neandertals as Close-range Predators 236 8.3 Prey Size, Hunting “Pack” Size, and Risk of Injury to Neandertal Hunters 245 8.4 Neandertal Hunting in Ecological Context 246 Notes 249 Chapter 9 In the Company of Killers: Neandertals as Carnivores 251 9.1 Large-bodied Carnivores of the Eurasian Late Pleistocene 253 9.2 The Members of the Eurasian Pleistocene Large-bodied Carnivore Guild 256 9.2.1 Homotherium latidens 256 9.2.2 Panthera leo spelaea 258 9.2.3 Panthera pardus 259 9.2.4 Crocuta crocuta spelaea 260 9.2.5 Hyaena hyaena 262 9.2.6 Canis lupus 262 9.2.7 Cuon alpinus 263 9.3 Competition within the Carnivore Guild 264 9.3.1 Exploitation Competition 265 9.3.2 Interference Competition 268 9.4 Neandertals Were Not the Socially-Dominant Members of the Carnivore Guild 271 9.5 Neandertal Ecology in the Context of Competition within the Carnivore Guild 276 Notes 284 Chapter 10 The Cost of Living in Ice Age Europe 287 10.1 Subsistence Organization and Mobility 289 10.2 Home Range Size 299 10.2.1 Lithic Raw Material Movement 300 10.2.2 Carnivore Models for Estimating Neandertal Mobility 302 10.3 Paleontological Reflections of Neandertal Mobility 309 10.4 The Energetic Cost of Mobility 316 10.5 The Energetic Cost of Domestic Activities 321 10.6 Neandertal Physical Activity Levels 324 Notes 331 Chapter 11 Neandertal Social Life, Life History, and Demography 333 11.1 Subsistence Labor Demands, Group Size, and Social Structure 336 11.2 Neandertal Life History 342 11.3 Neandertal Demography 347 Notes 352 Chapter 12 From Thin to Thick: The African MSA 353 12.1 Tipping the Scales on Population Growth 355 12.2 Culture Change in the Late MSA and Mousterian 360 Note 363 References 365 Index 445

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Book SynopsisThe first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways. The first volume to chart global human migration and population dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory, in all regions of the world An archaeological odyssey that details the initial spread of early humans out of Africa approximately two million years ago, through the Ice Ages, and down to the continental and island migrations of agricultural populations within the past 10,000 years Employs archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence to demonstrate how migration has always been a vital and complex element in explaining the evolution of the human species Outlines how significant migraTrade Review“In sum, First Migrantsis a commendable effort to synthesize a growing body of literature on the subject and will serve as a useful and much needed text for courses on the subject. For those generally unfamiliar with different parts of the world and why people moved to and fro, Bellwood has offered an attractive resource and one which should prove useful in that regard for years to come.” (American Antiquity, 1 July 2014) “This is a significant contribution to our understanding of world archaeology.” (Antiquity, 1 June 2014) Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Preface xiv A Note on Dating Terminology xvi Acknowledgements xvii 1 The Relevance and Reality of Ancient Migration 1 Migration in Prehistoric Times 4 Hypothesizing About Prehistoric Migrations 6 Migrations in History and Ethnography 8 The Helvetii 8 Ancient China 9 Medieval Iceland 10 The Nuer of Sudan 10 The Iban of Sarawak 12 Relevance for Prehistoric Migration? 13 2 Making Inferences About Prehistoric Migration 17 Changes in Time and Space – Genes, Languages, Cultures 18 Human Biology, Genetics, and Migration 19 Demic Diffusion 21 Language Families and the Study of Migration in Prehistory 22 Language Family Spread: Lessons from Recent History 26 Language Family Spread: Lessons from Anthropology 28 Dating the Spreads of Language Families 29 Cultures in Archaeology – Do They Equate with Linguistic and Biological Populations? 30 Archaeology and the Study of Migration in Prehistory 32 One End of the Spectrum – Intensive Culture Change without Significant Migration 32 The Other End of the Spectrum – Intensive Cultural Change with Significant Migration 33 3 Migrating Hominins and the Rise of Our Own Species 36 Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in Africa 38 First Hominin Migration(s) – Out of Africa 1 41 Unfolding Species in Time and Space 46 Java, Flores, and Crossing the Sea 48 Out of Africa 2? 50 Out of Africa 3? The Origins of H. sapiens 52 The Recognition of Modern Humans in Biology and Archaeology 54 The Expansion of Modern Humans Across the African and Eurasian Continents, 130,000–45,000 Years Ago 58 Africa 58 The Levant and Southern Asia 60 Northern and Western Eurasia 63 The Fate of the Neanderthals 66 Explanations? 67 4 Beyond Eurasia: The Pioneers of Unpeopled Lands – Wallacea and Beyond, Australia, The Americas 71 Crossing the Sea Beyond Sundaland 72 How Many Settlers? 74 The First Australo-Melanesians 76 The Archaeology of Island Colonization – Wallacea, Melanesia, Australia 77 Heading North and Offshore Again – Japan 81 The Americas 83 Getting to Beringia 84 Circumventing the Ice 88 The Rapid Unfolding of American Colonization 90 5 Hunter-Gatherer Migrations in a Warming Postglacial World 96 Postglacial Recolonizations in Northern Eurasia 97 After the First Americans: Further Migrations Across Bering Strait 101 Na-Dene and Yeniseian 101 The Apachean Migration 104 The Holocene Colonizations of Arctic Coastal North America 105 The Thule Migration and the Inuit 107 The Early Holocene Colonization of a Green Sahara 109 Continental Shelves and Their Significance for Human Migration 112 Holocene Australia – Pama-Nyungan Migration? 113 Linguistic Prehistory during the Australian Holocene 117 Who Were the Ancestral Pama-Nyungans? 119 6 The First Farmers and Their Offspring 123 Where and When Did Food Production Begin? 124 Why Did Food Production Develop in Some Places, but Not Others? 127 Why Was Domesticated Food Production Relatively Slow to Develop? 128 Food Production and Population Expansion 129 The Neolithic 133 Food Production as the Driving Force of Early Agriculturalist Migration 135 7 The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex 140 Agricultural Origins in the Fertile Crescent 141 Neolithic and Chalcolithic Expansion Beyond the Fertile Crescent 147 Anatolia and Southeastern Europe 147 Neolithic Migration Beyond Greece and the Balkans 149 The Steppes and Central Asia 151 Iran, Pakistan, and South Asia Beyond the Indus 153 Linguistic History and the Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex 157 Perspectives from Indo-European 157 The Possible Significance of the Turkic and Yeniseian Languages in Central Asia 163 West Eurasian Genetic and Population History in the Holocene 165 Peninsular Indian Archaeology and Dravidian Linguistic History 168 The Spread of the Fertile Crescent Food-Producing Economy into North Africa 169 The Fertile Crescent Food Production Complex and Its Impact on Holocene Prehistory in Western Eurasia 172 8 The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes 178 Agricultural Origins in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins of East Asia 178 Migrations from the Yellow River Basin 181 Migrations from the Yangzi Basin – Mainland Southeast Asia 182 Early Rice and the Linguistic Record 187 Genetics, Human Biology, and the East Asian Mainland during the Holocene 189 Island Southeast Asia and Oceania 191 The Colonization of Oceania 194 The History of the Austronesian Language Family 197 Biological Anthropology and the Austronesians 201 The East Asian and Western Pacific Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory 204 9 The African and American Food Production Complexes 210 Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa 211 West Africa and the Niger-Congo-Speaking Populations 213 The African Food Production Complex in Perspective 218 Holocene Migrations in the Americas 219 The Central Andes 221 Amazonia 224 The Caribbean Islands 228 Mesoamerica 229 Northern Mesoamerica, the Southwestern United States, and the Uto-Aztecans 230 The Eastern Woodlands 234 The American Food Production Complexes and Their Impacts on Holocene Prehistory 238 10 The Role of Migration in the History of Humanity 243 References 249 Index 299

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Book SynopsisThe sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to the twenty-first century, with new and significantly revised sections that reflect the current state of the field.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Timeline Introduction Part One: The Early History of Anthropological Theory Anthropology in Antiquity The Middle Ages The Renaissance Voyages of Geographical Discovery The Scientific Revolution The Enlightenment The Rise of Positivism Marxism Classical Cultural Evolutionism Evolutionism versus Diffusionism Archaeology Comes of Age Charles Darwin and Darwinism Sigmund Freud Émile Durkheim Marcel Mauss Max Weber Ferdinand de Saussure Part Two: The Earlier Twentieth Century American Cultural Anthropology Franz Boas Robert Lowie and Alfred Louis Kroeber Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict Zora Neale Hurston Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf The Development of Psychological Anthropology British Social Anthropology A.R. Radcliffe-Brown Bronislaw Malinowski E.E. Evans-Pritchard Edmund Leach Max Gluckman and the “Manchester School” The Legacy of British Social Anthropology Part Three: The Later Twentieth Century French Structural Anthropology Claude Lévi-Strauss Mary Douglas Latter-Day Structuralists Structural Marxists Marshall Sahlins The Legacy of French Structural Anthropology Cognitive Anthropology Ethnoscience and the “New Ethnography” Cultural Neo-evolutionism Leslie White Julian Steward Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service The New Archaeology Cultural Materialism Marvin Harris Nature versus Nurture Biology of Behaviour The New Physical Anthropology Ethology and Behavioural Genetics Sociobiology The Symbolic Turn Victor Turner and Symbolic Anthropology Clifford Geertz and Interpretive Anthropology Post-processual Archaeology The Influence of Symbolic and Interpretive Approaches Transactionalism Fredrik Barth Anthropology and Feminism Political Economy Marx and the World System Sins of the Fathers Ideology, Culture, and Power Postcolonialism Linguistic Anthropology Comes of Age Speech Acts and the Ethnography of Communication Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics Postmodernity Paul Feyerabend Michel Foucault Pierre Bourdieu Anthropology as Text Critical Medical Anthropology Part Four: The Early Twenty-First Century Globalization Culture, Gender, and Sexualities Public Anthropology Development and Controversy Distinguishing Public from Applied Anthropology Debating Fieldwork Ethics and the Military Serving a Global Public World Traditions and Collaborative Anthropology National Traditions and the Dominance of Anglo-America Collaboration with “Other” Voices Anthropologies of the Digital Age

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Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and birth, reproduction in Vanuatu continues to exceed bureaucratic economization through Ni-Vanuatu insistence on Indigenous relationalities. Through her examination of how reproduction is made public, Alexandra Widmer demonstrates how population sciences have naturalized a focus on women’s fertility and privileged issues of wage labour over women’s land access and broader social relations of reproduction. Widmer draws on oral histories with retired village midwives and massage healers on the changes to care for pregnancy and birth, as well as ethnographic research in a village outside the capital of Port Vila. Locating the Pacific Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Map of the Pacific Ocean and Vanuatu Map of South Efate Map of Port Vila Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. “The Shortage of Women Is the Cause of These Courts”: Imbalanced Sex Ratios, Native Courts, and Marriage Disputes Made Public, 1910–1950 2. “The Nurses Looked Out for Us!”: Hospital Births, Relational Infrastructures, and Public Concerns, 1950–1970 3. “It Will Help Planning for the Future”: Making Men’s and Women’s “Subsistence” Public Knowledge in the First Census, 1966–1967 4. “I Just Wanted to Be Invisible”: “Young Mothers” from Global Discourse to Village Experience, 2010–2020 5. “Well-Being for Melanesia”: Alternative Indicators, Massage Healers, and Reciprocal Relationships, 2010–2020 Epilogue: Relations of Reproduction and Survival in the Anthropocene Appendix 1: Population Size from 1850 to 2020 Appendix 2: Overview of Biomedical Health Services in Vanuatu in 1954 Works Cited

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Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and birth, reproduction in Vanuatu continues to exceed bureaucratic economization through Ni-Vanuatu insistence on Indigenous relationalities. Through her examination of how reproduction is made public, Alexandra Widmer demonstrates how population sciences have naturalized a focus on women’s fertility and privileged issues of wage labour over women’s land access and broader social relations of reproduction. Widmer draws on oral histories with retired village midwives and massage healers on the changes to care for pregnancy and birth, as well as ethnographic research in a village outside the capital of Port Vila. Locating the Pacific Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Map of the Pacific Ocean and Vanuatu Map of South Efate Map of Port Vila Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. “The Shortage of Women Is the Cause of These Courts”: Imbalanced Sex Ratios, Native Courts, and Marriage Disputes Made Public, 1910–1950 2. “The Nurses Looked Out for Us!”: Hospital Births, Relational Infrastructures, and Public Concerns, 1950–1970 3. “It Will Help Planning for the Future”: Making Men’s and Women’s “Subsistence” Public Knowledge in the First Census, 1966–1967 4. “I Just Wanted to Be Invisible”: “Young Mothers” from Global Discourse to Village Experience, 2010–2020 5. “Well-Being for Melanesia”: Alternative Indicators, Massage Healers, and Reciprocal Relationships, 2010–2020 Epilogue: Relations of Reproduction and Survival in the Anthropocene Appendix 1: Population Size from 1850 to 2020 Appendix 2: Overview of Biomedical Health Services in Vanuatu in 1954 Works Cited

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Book SynopsisBones and Bodies is a highly accessible account of the establishment of the scientific discipline of biological anthropology. Alan G Morris takes us back over the past century of anthropological discovery in South Africa and uncovers the stories of individual scientists and researchers who played a significant role in shaping perceptions of how peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern, came to be viewed and categorised both in the public imagination and the scientific literature.Morris reveals how much of the earlier anthropological studies were tainted with the tarred brush of race science, evaluating the works of famous anthropologists and archaeologists such as Raymond Dart, Thomas Dreyer, Matthew Drennan and Robert Broom. Morris also considers how modern anthropology tried to rid itself of the stigma of these early racist accounts. In the 1960s and 1970s, Ronald Singer and Phillip Tobias introduced modern methods into the discipline that disputed much of what the public wished to believe about race and human evolution. Bones and Bodies shows the battle facing modern anthropology to acknowledge its racial past but also how its study of human variation remains an important field of enquiry at institutions of higher learning.Table of Contents List of Illustrations A Note on the Use of Historical Terminology Acknowledgements List of Characters with Dates of Birth, Death and Affiliation Schema of Types Introduction Chapter 1 Dr Louis Péringuey’s Well-Travelled Skeletons Chapter 2 Boskop: The First South African Fossil Human Celebrity Chapter 3 Matthew Drennan and the Scottish Influence in Cape Town Chapter 4 The Age of Racial Typology in South Africa Chapter 5 Raymond Dart’s Complicated Legacy Chapter 6 Ronald Singer, Phillip Tobias and the ‘New Physical Anthropology’ Chapter 7 Physical Anthropology and the Administration of Apartheid Chapter 8 The Politics of Racial Classification in Modern South Africa Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOur ability to think is one of our most puzzling characteristics. What it would be like to be unable to think? What would it be like to lack self-awareness? The complexity of this activity is striking. Thinking involves the interaction of a range of mental processes - attention, emotion, memory, planning, self-consciousness, free will, and language. So where did these processes arise? What evolutionary advantages were bestowed upon those with an ability to deceive, to plan, to empathize, or to understand the intentions of others? In this compelling work, Peter Gärdenfors embarks on an evolutionary detective story to try and solve one of the big mysteries surrounding human existence - how has the modern human being''s way of thinking come into existence. He starts by taking in turn the more basic cognitive processes, such as attention and memory, then builds upon these to explore more complex behaviours, such as self-consciousness, mindreading, and imitation. Having done this, he examines the consequences of putting thought into the world, using external media like cave paintings, drawings and writing.Immensely readable and humorous, the book will be valuable for students in psychology and biology, whilst remaining accessible to readers of popular science.Trade ReviewGardenfors presents a wealth of thought-provoking information and discussion, with a well-argued viewpoint, in a clear style. * JBE, Vol. 40, No. 4 *. . . well written and admirably succinct. Although it has an argument to make, it does so in a fair and evenhanded way. This would make a good introduction for anyone venturing into the evolution of mind literature for the first time. * Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol 79, No 4 *Table of Contents1. THINKING FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE; 2. SENSATION, PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION; 3. THE WORLD WITHIN; 4. READING OTHER PEOPLE'S MINDS; 5. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; 6. THE DAWN OF LANGUAGE; 7. THE ORIGIN OF SPEECH; 8. EXTERNALISING THE INNER WORLD

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology spans the gap between archaeology and biological anthropology, the field and laboratory, and between francophone and anglophone funerary archaeological approaches to the remains of the dead and the understanding of societies, past and present.Interest in archaeothanatology has grown considerably in recent years in English-language scholarship. This timely publication moves away from anecdotal case studies to offer syntheses of archaeothanatological approaches with an eye to higher-level inferences about funerary behaviour and its meaning in the past. Written by francophone scholars who have contributed to the development of the field and anglophone scholars inspired by the approach, this volume offers detailed insight into the background and development of archaeothanatology, its theory, methods, applications, and its most recent advances, with a lexicon of related vocabulary.This volume is a key source for archaeo-anTrade ReviewWinner of the European Association of Archaeologists Archaeology Book Prize 2023'For too long, language has divided French and English-speaking researchers over approaches to the archaeology of death. This very substantial volume brings them together for the first time in a major endeavour which reveals the range and potential of archaeothanatological approaches.' ~ Mike Parker Pearson, University College London, United Kingdom'Harking back on many decades of evolving archaeothanatology in action, this book certainly sets a new global standard both in burial excavations and depositional reconstructions of human skeletal remains and their contexts.' ~ Vera Tiesler, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, MexicoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Archaeothanatology, funerary archaeology and bioarchaeology: perspectives on the long view of death and the dead Christopher J. Knüsel and Eline M.J. Schotsmans Part I: Archaeothanatology – methodological guidelines 1. Methodological guidelines for archaeothanatological practice Frédérique Blaizot 2. A tale of two worlds: Terminologies in archaeothanatologyBruno Boulestin3. Words between two worlds: Collective graves and related issues in burial terminology Bruno Boulestin and Patrice Courtaud4. Secondary cremation burials of past populations: Some methodological procedures for excavation, bone fragment identification and sex determinationGermaine Depierre 5. The accompanying deadBruno Boulestin6. Denied funeral rites: The contribution of the archaeothanatological approach Aurore SchmittPart II: Period-specific applications 7. Early primary burials: Evidence from Southwestern AsiaAnne-marie Tillier8. The earliest European burials Bruno Maureille 9. Beyond the formal analysis of funerary practices? Archaeothanatology as a reflexive tool for considering the role of the dead amongst the living: A Natufian case study Fanny Bocquentin 10. What can archaeothanatology add? A case study of new knowledge and theoretical implications in the re-study of Mesolithic burials in Sweden and DenmarkLiv Nilsson Stutz11. Neolithic burials of infants and childrenMélie Le Roy and Stéphane Rottier12. Defining collective burials: Three case studiesAurore Schmitt13. Different burial types but common practice: The case of the funerary complex at Barbuise and La Saulsotte (France) at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age Stéphane Rottier14. Deathways of the Durotriges: Reconstructing identity through archaeothanatology in later Iron Age southern BritainKarina Gerdau-Radonić, Janne Sperrevik, Martin Smith, Paul Cheetham, and Miles Russell15. The Roman cemetery of Porta Nocera at Pompeii: The contribution of osteological re-associations to the study of secondary cremation burialsHenri Duday16. Reopening graves for the removal of objects and bones: Cultural practices and looting Edeltraud Aspöck, Karina Gerdau-Radonić and Astrid Noterman17. Cluniac funerary practicesEleanor Williams18. ‘Bring out your dead’: Funerary and public health practices in times of epidemic diseaseDominique Castex and Sacha Kacki19. Jewish funerary practices in Medieval EuropePhilippe Blanchard20. Islamic burials: Muslim graves and graves of MuslimsYves Gleize21. Recognising a slave cemetery: An example from colonial-period Guadeloupe, Lesser AntillesPatrice Courtaud and Thomas RomonPart III: Archaeothanatology of associated remains22. Archaeothanatological approaches to associated remains in funerary contexts in Europe: An overviewIsabelle Cartron and Aurélie Zemour23. An archaeothanatological approach to the identification of late Anglo-Saxon burials in wooden containersEmma C. Green24. Ceramic studies in funerary contexts from Roman GaulChristine Bonnet25. Animal remains in burialsPatrice Méniel 26. The walking dead – life after death: archaeoentomological evidence in a Roman catacomb: (Saints Marcellinus and Peter, central area, 1st-3rd century AD)Jean-Bernard Huchet and Dominique CastexPart IV: Applied sciences, experiments and legal considerations27. From flesh to bone: building bridges between taphonomy, archaeothanatology and forensic science for a better understanding of mortuary practices Eline M.J. Schotsmans, Patrice Georges-Zimmerman, Maiken Ueland, and Boyd B. Dent28. Exploring the use of actualistic forensic taphonomy in the study of (forensic) archaeological human burials: An actualistic experimental research programme at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS), San Marcos, TexasHayley L. Mickleburgh, Daniel J. Wescott, Sarah Gluschitz, and M. Victor Klinkenberg29. An experimental approach to the interpretation of prehistoric cremation and cremation burialsMogens B. Henriksen 30. The taphonomic and archaeothanatological potentials of diagenetic alterations of archaeological boneThomas J. Booth, David Brönniman, Richard Madgwick, and Cordula Portmann31. 3D models as useful tools in archaeothanatologyGéraldine Sachau-Carcel32. Use of archaeothanatology in preventive (salvage/rescue) archaeology and field research archaeology Mark Guillon33. Managing and reburying ancient human remains in France: From legal and ethical concerns to field practicesGaëlle ClavandierPart V: Lexicon of archaeothanatological terms34. Lexicon of terms used in archaeothanatology: A work still in the process of becoming Christopher J. Knüsel, Karina Gerdau-Radonić, and Eline M.J. Schotsmans

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Book SynopsisThere is intense debate over whether humans evolved from a single, African group of hominids (the 'Out of Africa' theory) or from several different populations from different regions. Here, Dr Lahr presents hard evidence for the 'Out of Africa' option, in a book which will be a must for all those interested in human evolution.Trade Review'Lahr deserves a lot of credit for her very thorough presentation of so much evidence. Supporters of multi-regional evolution will be hard pressed to counter her main points.' Tree' … an important study … likely to remain an essential reference in the debate over recent human evolution for the foreseeable future.' Alan Bilsborough, Annals of Human BiologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The modern human origins debate; Part I. Multiregional Evolution as the Source of Human Cranial Diversity: 3. The morphological basis of the multiregional model; 4. The regional expression of the East Asian and Australian continuity traits; 5. Temporal distribution of the 'Regional Continuity Traits' in late Pleistocene hominids; 6. The independence of expression of the 'Regional Continuity Traits'; 7. Multiregional evolution as the source of recent regional cranial diversity; a review; Part II. The Evolution of Modern Human Cranial Diversity from a Single Ancestral Source: 8. Cranial variation in Homo sapiens; 9. Morphological differentiation from a single ancestral source; 10. Geographical differentiation from a single ancestral source; 11. The evolution of modern human cranial diversity; 12. Final conclusions; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe chimpanzee, of all other living species, is our closest relation, with whom we last shared a common ancestor about 5 million years ago. These African apes make and use a rich and varied kit of tools, and of the primates they are the only consistent and habitual tool-users and tool-makers. Chimpanzees meet the criteria of culture as originally defined for human beings by socio-cultural anthropologists. They show sex differences in using tools to obtain and to process a variety of plant and animal foods. The technological gap between chimpanzees and human societies that live by foraging (hunter-gatherers) is surprisingly narrow, at least for food-getting. Different communities of wild chimpanzees have different tool-kits, and not all of this regional and local variation can be explained by the demands of the physical and biotic environments in which they live. Some differences are likely to be customs based on socially derived and symbolically encoded traditions. Chimpanzees serve asTrade Review' … masterfully integrates primatology and (paleo)anthropology …' Elisabetta Visalberghi, ScienceTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Patterns of culture?; 2. Studying chimpanzees; 3. Chimpanzees as apes; 4. Cultured chimpanzees?; 5. Chimpanzee sexes; 6. Chimpanzees and foragers; 7. Chimpanzees compared; 8. Chimpanzee ethnology; 9. Chimpanzees as models; 10. What chimpanzees are, are not, and might be; References; Appendix; Index.

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Book SynopsisWith its broad focus ranging from medicine to history, this book provides a solid historical understanding of how the nature of past cultures and civilisations affects human risk of disease. For readers fascinated by ancient societies and past civilizations as well as those intrigued by the health of our ancestors.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Near Eastern civilizations; 3. Ancient Egypt and Nubia; 4. The prehistoric peoples of Europe; 5. The Roman world; 6. Medieval Europe; 7. East Asian civilizations; 8. North American indigenous peoples; 9. South and Central American civilizations; 10. Parasites, migrations and epidemics; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe discovery of the first species of African hominin, Australopithecus africanus, from Taung, South Africa in 1924, launched the study of fossil man in Africa. New discoveries continue to confirm the importance of this region to our understanding of human evolution. Outlining major developments since Raymond Dart's description of the Taung skull and, in particular, the impact of the pioneering work of Phillip V. Tobias, this book will be a valuable companion for students and researchers of human origins. It presents a summary of the current state of palaeoanthropology, reviewing the ideas that are central to the field, and provides a perspective on how future developments will shape our knowledge about hominin emergence in Africa. A wide range of key themes are covered, from the earliest fossils from Chad and Kenya, to the origins of bipedalism and the debate about how and where modern humans evolved and dispersed across Africa.Trade Review'African Genesis is a good contribution to the paleoanthropological literature and it will undoubtedly find its way into many university libraries.' Jeremy M. DeSilva, American Journal of Human BiologyTable of ContentsList of contributors; Foreword J. T. Francis Thackeray; 1. African genesis: an evolving paradigm Sally C. Reynolds; 2. Academic genealogy Peter Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias; Part I. In Search of Origins: Evolutionary Theory, New Species, and Paths into the Past: 3. Speciation in hominin evolution Colin Groves; 4. Searching for a new paradigm for hominid origins in Chad (Central Africa) Michel Brunet; 5. From hominoid arboreality to hominid bipedalism Brigitte Senut; 6. Orrorin and the African ape/hominid dichotomy Martin Pickford; 7. A brief history and results of 40 years of Sterkfontein excavations Ronald J. Clarke; Part II. Hominin Morphology Through Time: Brains, Bodies and Teeth: 8. Hominin brain evolution, 1925–2011: an emerging overview Dean Falk; 9. The issue of brain reorganisation in Australopithecus and early hominids: Dart had it right Ralph L. Holloway; 10. The mass of the human brain: is it a spandrel? Paul R. Manger, Jason Hemingway, Muhammad Spocter and Andrew Gallagher; 11. Origin and diversity of early hominin bipedalism Henry M. McHenry; 12. Forelimb adaptations in Australopithecus afarensis Michelle S. M. Drapeau; 13. Hominin proximal femur morphology from the Tugen Hills to Flores Brian G. Richmond and William L. Jungers; 14. Daily rates of dentine formation and root extension rates in Paranthropus boisei, KNM-ER 1817, from Koobi Fora, Kenya M. Christopher Dean; 15. On the evolutionary development of early hominid molar teeth and the Gondolin Paranthropus molar Kevin L. Kuykendall; 16. Digital South African fossils: morphological studies using reference-based reconstruction and electronic preparation Gerhard W. Weber, Philipp Gunz, Simon Neubauer, Philipp Mitteroecker and Fred L. Bookstein; Part III. Modern Human Origins: Patterns, and Processes: 17. Body size in African Middle Pleistocene Homo Steven E. Churchill, Lee R. Berger, Adam Hartstone-Rose and Headman Zondo; 18. The African origin of recent humanity Milford H. Wolpoff and Sang-Hee Lee; 19. Assimilation and modern human origins in the African peripheries Fred H. Smith, Vance T. Hutchinson and Ivor Janković; 20. Patterns of Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution in Africa and the emergence of modern humans Emma Mbua and Günter Bräuer; 21. Integration of the genetic, anatomical, and archaeological data for the African origin of modern humans: problems and prospects Osbjorn M. Pearson; Part IV. In Search of Context: Hominin Environments, Behaviour and Lithic Cultures: 22. Animal palaeocommunity variability and habitat preference of robust australopiths in South Africa Darryl J. de Ruiter, Matt Sponheimer and Julia Lee-Thorp; 23. Impacts of environmental change and community ecology on the composition and diversity of the southern African monkey fauna from the Plio-Pleistocene to the present Sarah Elton; 24. African genesis revisited: reflections on Raymond Dart and the 'Predatory Transition from Ape(-Man) to Man' Travis R. Pickering; 25. Shared intention in early artefacts: an exploration of deep structure and implications for communication and language John A. J. Gowlett; 26. Sibudu Cave: recent archaeological work on the Middle Stone Age Lyn Wadley; 27. The oldest burials and their significance Avraham Ronen; Index.

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Book SynopsisLike Donald Johanson's Lucy, this first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree.

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