Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins

ISBN-13: 9780500252635 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.

Paul Pettitt

Recenzje

'An astonishing tale of art and science that goes right to the root of what it means to be human' - Alice Roberts

Spis treści

Prologue
Maps
Introduction
1. Skin and Bones
2. The Molecular Frontier
3. When the going gets tough: climate, change, and environment
4. Dispersal: from Africa to Asia
5. Contact
6. Diversity
7. Catastrophe: the coming of Homo sapiens in Europe
8. Stress, disease, illness and inbreeding
9. In Mammoth country
10. Cold
11. Refuge
12. Hearth and home
13. Let us descend into the sightless world. Palaeolithic cave art
14. Portable landscapes
15. The mind
16. The world of the dead
17. Into the Americas
18. Domestication
Epilogue
Further reading

O autorze

Paul Pettitt is Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Durham University, specializing in the European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. His research interests focus particularly on the origins of art and the development of treatment of the dead, and he has conducted fieldwork across Europe and further afield.