Before Modern Humans: New Perspectives on the African Stone Age

ISBN-13: 9780367605377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 390 str.

Grant S. McCall

Opis

This fascinating volume reviews Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory and presents a model in which the onset of the Middle Stone Age (before 285,000 years ago) marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers.

Spis treści

1 Introduction
2 Stone Tool Technology and the Organizational Approach
3 The Organization of Early Stone Age Lithic Technology
4 The Organization of Middle Stone Age (MSA) Lithic Technology
5 Fear and Loathing in Paleolithic Faunal Analysis
6 Implications of Lower and Middle Pleistocene Faunal Assemblage Composition
7 Implications of Lower and Middle Pleistocene Hominin Bone Modification Patterns
8 Alternative Perspectives on Hominin Biological Evolution and Ecology
9 Conclusion

O autorze

Grant S. McCall is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Anthropology of Tulane University, USA.