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1. Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I:Principles, Methods and Approaches Vol II:Primate Evolution and Human Origins Vol III:Phylogeny of Hominids (v. 1) | |
Hardcover: 2173
Pages
(2007-05-29)
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Editorial Review Product Description Paleoanthropology is perhaps the most multidisciplinary of all the sciences. Any complete account of the evolution and cultural and biological context of Homo sapiens must combine information from geology, paleoecology, primatology, evolutionary biology and a host of other fields. Above all, historical information needs to be combined with, and interpreted in the light of, what we know of the living world. Paleoanthropology is also an actively developing field in which much remains to be settled. The three volumes of this handbook bring together contributions by the world´s leading specialists that reflect the broad spectrum of modern paleoanthropology, thus presenting an indispensable resource for both professionals and students alike. Volume 1 deals with principles, methods, and approaches. In recent years, enormous advances have been made in such areas as phylogenetic analysis, paleoecology and evolutionary theory and philosophy. The contributions in this first volume present the state of the art in these fields, provide succinct introductions to them and reflect the many ways in which they interact. As human beings are primates, Volume 2 is devoted to primate origins, evolution, behaviour, and adaptive variety. Its emphasis is on integration of fossil data with the vast amount that is now known of the behaviour and ecology of living primates in natural environments. Volume 3 deals with the fossil and molecular evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives (the family Hominidae or subfamily Homininae, according to taste, a matter that we have left to the individual contributors). |
2. The First Humans: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) | |
Hardcover: 220
Pages
(2009-06-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description This volume addresses the origin of the human genus Homo, a major transition in human evolution and associated with major changes in brain size, locomotion, and culture, but one with many unanswered questions. How many different species of Homo were there, and how were they interrelated? Are stone tools a characteristic of early Homo? What was their function? How does the use of stone tools relate to changes in the dentition and brain size? Did adaptations for long distance running first appear with the origin of this genus? How does this relate to its diet and cultural abilities. |
3. American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) | |
Hardcover: 202
Pages
(2009-01-29)
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Editorial Review Product Description The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes -- Extinctions in Near Time -- appeared in 1999; since then a great deal of innovative, exciting new research has been done but has not yet been compiled and summarized. Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resumés of the chronology of the extinctions in North and South America, the possible insights into animal ecology provided by studies of stable isotopes and anatomical/physiological characteristics such as growth increments in mammoth and mastodont tusks, the clues from taphonomic research about large-mammal biology, the applications of dating methods to the extinctions debate, and archeological controversies concerning human hunting of large mammals. |
4. Paleoanthropology by Milford H. Wolpoff | |
Hardcover: 936
Pages
(1998-06-01)
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A comprehensive and merticulous work
The number 1 reference!
Pretentious Wolpoff strikes again!
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Great for those well-versed in paleoanthropology |
5. Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) | |
Paperback: 409
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description The objective of the volume is to bring together, in one collection, the most innovative dental anthropological research as it pertains to the study of hominid evolution. In the past few decades both the numbers of hominid dental fossils and the sophistication of the techniques used to analyze them have increased substantially. The book’s contributions focus on dental morphometrics, growth and development, diet and dental evolution. |
6. Asian Paleoanthropology: From Africa to China and Beyond (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) | |
Hardcover: 214
Pages
(2010-09-09)
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7. God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia by Kenneth A. R. Kennedy | |
Hardcover: 504
Pages
(2000-09-08)
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South Asian Paleoanthropology: New insight Name of book: Daniel Martin Varisco: Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science. The almanac of a Yemeni Sultan. Used book priced at dollars 15.89.
South Asian Paleoanthropology ; new insight This book is a must read for students and professionals alike, and others with interest in hominid / human skeleton remains and the information these remains hold for understanding the biological history and diversity of South Asia�s people. Kenneth A.R. Kennedy sets forth to test the validity of some hypothesis that emerged from the interpretation of such findings. After presenting precise accounts of different viewpoints, Kennedy provides an unbiased fresh insight based on his interdisciplinary approach, integrating archaeological, geological, linguistic, fossil, and historical evidences. It contains a balanced and scholarly treatment of the latest methods used in skeleton biological analysis. The book should become a model reference work for understanding paleoanthropology of a single region. The major merit of author�s approach has been a critical presentation of European concepts of human origins, biological diversity, and pre-historic life ways, and to appraise the reader about how those concepts were superimposed upon more native traditions, which addressed many of the same questions but from within an entirely distinctive cultural context and perceptions.Kennedy provides sufficient supportive evidences, which suggest that there was no abrupt transition or mass migration of food- producing new races into the hunting territories of longer settled people in South Asia. Faunal and floral evidences from certain sites in Rajasthan and the Ganges valley suggest incipient practices of plant and animal domestication among Mesolithic groups. Emergence of food production strategies was a gradual transition that took place in different localities at different times.Kennedy discusses paleodemographic and anatomical data, which points out that the participants in the mature phase of Harappan civilization were not a mysterious people of unknown biological origins, or migrants from other centers of high culture in western Asia, but were descendants of populations identified with the pre-Harappan cultures of northwestern sector of the sub-continent. Kennedy argues that Indian three-race concept paradigm about caste (including the status of Aryan lineage) and a western argument, favoring demic migrations, is not tenable. Professionals of different disciplines, students, and even lay people alike will all find something thought- provoking in this book. Very highly recommended. ... Read more |
8. Anthropology Without Informants: Collected Works in Paleoanthropology by L. G. Freeman | |
Hardcover: 376
Pages
(2009-05-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description A sociocultural anthropologist who became a behavioral paleoanthropologist late in his career, Freeman took a unique approach, employing statistical or mathematical techniques in his analysis of archaeological data. All the papers in this collection blend theoretical statements with the archeological facts they are intended to help the reader understand. Although he taught at the University of Chicago for the span of his 40-year career, Freeman is not well-known among Anglophone scholars, because his primary fieldwork and publishing occurred in Spain. He has, however, been a major player in Paleolithic prehistory, and this volume will introduce him to American achaeologists unfamiliar with his work. |
9. The Evolution of Hominin Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) | |
Hardcover: 300
Pages
(2009-06-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description This volume brings together new and important research from the top experts in hominid diets across multiple fields. The objective of the volume is to explore if there is a consensus between the different methods, allowing us to better understand the nature of hominin dietary strategies through time. Contributions focus on modern studies, faunal studies, physical anthropology, archaeological studies, and isotopic studies, all aimed at answering the major questions of the evolution of hominid diets, such as: meat-eating emergence, hunting vs. scavenging, hunting technologies, and resource intensification in later humans. ‘Assembling a rich blend from the realms of archaeology, paleoanthropology and isotopic analysis, this excellent text confronts the perennial question: what was our ancestral diet?’ Henry Schwarcz, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada 'This masterful multidisciplinary synthesis of human dietary evolution is simply a must-have reference for all biological anthropologists, archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists interested in our past.' Leslie Aiello, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research |
10. Debating HumanKind's Place in Nature; 1860-2000: The Nature of Paleoanthropology by Richard G. Delisle | |
Paperback: 528
Pages
(2006-02-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Showing that paleoanthropology is a progressive and dynamic field, this book argues that all debates and hypotheses spring from a single general theory: the theory of biological evolution. It presents the debates and research from 150 scholars in the field, and separates the resolution of these debates through three different time periods: 1860-1890, 1890-1935, and post-1935. Topics include: the history of the field; comparative anatomy; the human fossil record; primate phylogeny; human phylogeny; and the nature of paleoanthropology. A book that will appeal to anyone interested in anthropology, it will also interest historians and others in the social sciences. |
11. The fossil evidence for human evolution;: An introduction to the study of paleoanthropology (The Scientist's library. Biology and medicine) by Wilfrid E. Le Gros Clark | |
Hardcover: 180
Pages
(1955)
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12. Paleoanthropology: Morphology and Paleoecology (World Anthropology) by Russell H. Tuttle | |
Hardcover: 453
Pages
(1975-11)
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13. Views of the past: Essays in old world prehistory and paleoanthropology (World Anthropology) by Leslie G. (ed). Freeman | |
Hardcover: 445
Pages
(1978)
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14. Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) | |
Paperback: 356
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description This volume presents the work of researchers at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. The authors take a broad approach that seeks to compare paleoenvironmental and paleoecological patterns across localities and among various taxonomic groups. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene. |
15. Paleo-Anthropology. by Milford H. Wolpoff | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1980)
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16. Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) | |
Hardcover: 170
Pages
(2011-03-01)
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17. Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution: An Introduction to the Study of Paleoanthropology by Wilfrid Edward Le Gros, Sir Clark | |
Hardcover: 231
Pages
(1979-04)
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18. Paleoanthropology by George E. Kennedy | |
Hardcover: 479
Pages
(1980-06)
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19. Three-Dimensional Imaging in Paleoanthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology (bar s) by Herve Delingette, Bertrand Mafart | |
Paperback: 108
Pages
(2002-12-31)
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20. The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia: Paleoenvironments, Prehistory and Genetics (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) | |
Hardcover: 312
Pages
(2009-12-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description The contemporary deserts of Arabia form some of the most dramatic arid landscapes in the world; yet, during many times in the past, the region was well-watered, containing evidence for rivers and lakes. Climatic fluctuations through time must have had a profound effect on human population that lived and passed through the region. In this book, paleoenvironmental specialists, archaeologists and geneticists are brought together to provide a comprehensive account of the evolution of human populations in Arabia. A wide range of topics are explored in this book, including environmental change and its impact on human populations, the movement and dispersal of populations through the region, and the origin and spread of food producing economies. New theories and interpretations are presented which provide new insights into the evolution of human populations in a key region of the world. |
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