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In Search of Total Animal Exploitation - Case Studies from the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
Author: International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781407304670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains nine papers given at the 15th UISPP congress which examine the exploitation of animal resources in Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe and the economic and cultural choices involved. Case studies are from Aurignacian sites (French Pyrenees and northeastern France), Gravettian sites (Swabian Jura and Moravia), Magdalenian sites (Massif Central, southwestern France, Spanish and French Pyrenees), Epigravettian sites (southern Italy), and Sauvetterian sites (southern French Massif Central).
Hunters in Transition
Author: Marek Zvelebil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-06-18
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521109574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hunters in Transition analyses the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming.
Working Memory
Author: Tracy Packiam Alloway
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1136208178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Working memory – the conscious processing of information – is increasingly recognized as one of the most important aspects of intelligence. This fundamental cognitive skill is deeply connected to a great variety of human experience – from our childhood, to our old age, from our evolutionary past, to our digital future. In this volume, leading psychologists review the latest research on working memory and consider what role it plays in development and over the lifespan. It is revealed how a strong working memory is connected with success (academically and acquiring expertise) and a poor working memory is connected with failure (addictive behavior and poor decision-making). The contributions also show how working memory played a role in our cognitive evolution and how the everyday things we do, such as what we eat and how much we sleep, can have an impact on how well it functions. Finally, the evidence on whether or not working memory training is beneficial is explored. This volume is essential reading for students, researchers, and professionals with an interest in human memory and its improvement, including those working in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, gerontology, education, health, and clinical psychology.
Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory
Author: Eric Delson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-23
Total Pages: 2060
ISBN-13: 1135582270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB
Some Thoughts about the Evolution of Human Behavior: A Literature Survey
Author: Arthur J. Boucot
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1789699045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On his death, Arthur Boucot (1924–2017) left an unfinished manuscript in which he surveyed the skeletal, behavioral, and cultural changes that have characterized Homo from its first recognition in the Late Pliocene to the present. The results, edited after his death, provide a heavily referenced sourcebook for future workers in diverse fields.
Pigs and Humans
Author: Umberto Albarella
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-12-06
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0199207046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of essays focusing upon the role wild and domestic pigs have played in human societies around the world over the last 10,000 years. The 22 contributors cover a broad and diverse range of themes, grounded within the disciplines of archaeology, zoology, anthropology, and biology, as well as art history and history.
Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research
Author: Geoffrey A. Clark
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780202365022
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While those who study human origins now agree that the evolution of modern human form extends back much further in time than the evolution of modern human behavior, they disagree sharply as to how to interpret the substantive data. Two fundamentally incommensurate interpretations of our origins, the "Replacement" camp and the "Continuity" camp, have now emerged out of pre-existing models and theories that go back to the last quarter of the 19th century. This book contends that these positions are based on radically different biases and assumptions about what the remote human past was like. The purpose of this volume is to examine those conceptual differences, not to arrive at a consensus, but rather to explore the reasons why a consensus might never be possible.
The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave
Author: Erella Hovers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-06-09
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0198043414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple burials of early anatomically modern Homo sapiens (AMHs). The record from this region raises the question of possible long-term temporal overlap between early AMHs and Neanderthals. For this reason, Qafzeh has long been one of the pivotal sites in debates on the origins of AMHs and in attempts to compare and contrast the two species' adaptations and behavior. Although the hominin fossils from the site were published years ago, until now the associated archaeological assemblages were incompletely described, often leading to conflicting interpretations. This monograph includes a thorough technological analysis of the lithic assemblages, incorporated in their geological and sedimentological contexts. This description serves as a springboard for regional comparisons as well as a more general discussion about Middle Paleolithic behavior, which is relevant to important and as yet unresolved questions on the origins of "modern" behavior patterns. The volume includes a wide-ranging and up-to-date bibliography that provides the middle-range for discussing the ecological context and behavioral complexity of the Middle Paleolithic period, and ends with some thought-provoking conclusions about the dynamic human interactions that existed in the region during this time.
Origins and Revolutions
Author: Clive Gamble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-03-26
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1139462490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this study Clive Gamble presents and questions two of the most famous descriptions of change in prehistory. The first is the 'human revolution', when evidence for art, music, religion and language first appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithic period. Gamble identifies the historical agendas behind 'origins research' and presents a bold alternative to these established frameworks, relating the study of change to the material basis of human identity. He examines, through artefact proxies, how changing identities can be understood using embodied material metaphors and in two major case-studies charts the prehistory of innovations, asking, did agriculture really change the social world? This is an important and challenging book that will be essential reading for every student and scholar of prehistory.
