The Archaeology of Human Origins

The Archaeology of Human Origins
Author: Glynn Llywelyn Isaac
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521365734

A collection of the most influential papers of the late Glynn Isaac.

Stone Tools and Fossil Bones

Stone Tools and Fossil Bones
Author: Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2012-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107022924

International archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.

The Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge
Author: Kathy Diane Schick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

"The Cutting Edge: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Human Origins presents new studies focusing on the prehistoric evidence for proto-human behavior and adaptation. Based upon a Stone Age Institute conference, this book features many of the principal investigators in Early Stone Age research. This collection of papers expands our knowledge of human evolutionary studies and considers new avenues of inquiry for the future. These studies include the results of fieldwork at major archaeological sites between 2.6 and 1.4 million years ago, analytical approaches to Early Stone Age evidence, and experimental archaeological research probing the evolutionary significance of these early sites." --Book Jacket.

Forbidden Archeology

Forbidden Archeology
Author: Michael A. Cremo
Publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Total Pages: 968
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has supppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a knowledge filter, giving us a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect.

Interrogating Human Origins

Interrogating Human Origins
Author: Martin Porr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000761932

Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the range of approaches to bring in postcolonial theories, and begin to explore the decolonisation of this complex topic. The collection of chapters presented in this volume creates spaces for expansion of critical and unexpected conversations about human origins research. Authors from a variety of disciplines and research backgrounds, many of whom have strayed beyond their usual disciplinary boundaries to offer their unique perspectives, all circle around the big questions of what it means to be and become human. Embracing and encouraging diversity is a recognition of the deep complexities of human existence in the past and the present, and it is vital to critical scholarship on this topic. This book constitutes a starting point for increased interrogation of the important and wide-ranging field of research into human origins. It will be of interest to scholars across multiple disciplines, and particularly to those seeking to understand our ancient past through a more diverse lens.

Studying Human Origins

Studying Human Origins
Author: Raymond Corbey
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789053564646

This history of human origin studies covers a wide range of disciplines. This important new study analyses a number of key episodes from palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, primatology and evolutionary theory in terms of various ideas on how one should go about such reconstructions and what, if any, the uses of such historiographical exercises can be for current research in these disciplines. Their carefully argued point is that studying the history of palaeoanthropological thinking about the past can enhance the quality of current research on human origins. The main issues in the present volume are the uses of disciplinary history in terms of present-day research concerns, the relative weight of cultural and other 'external' contexts, and continuity and change in theoretical perspectives. The book's overall approach is an epistemological one. It does not, in other words, primarily address anthropological data as such, but our ways of handling such data in terms of our most fundamental, but usually quite implicit theoretical presuppositions.

Human Origins

Human Origins
Author: George Grant MacCurdy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1924
Genre: Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN:

Human Origins

Human Origins
Author: George Grant MacCurdy
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1933
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN: