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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Archaeopress archaeologyPublisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2020Description: 1 online resource (212 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781789693805
  • 1789693802
  • 1789693799
  • 9781789693799
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Landscapes of Human Evolution : Contributions in Honour of John Gowlett.DDC classification:
  • 599.938 23
LOC classification:
  • GN281 .C65 2020
NLM classification:
  • GN 281
Online resources:
Contents:
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
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Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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