The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex and Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780415642941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 472 str.

Stephen Shennan; James Steele

Opis

Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors? This book provides a stimulating and provocative answer.

Recenzje

'I found myself engaged, enraged, and sometimes elated in reading it, and often added exclamations, question marks, curses, and kudos in the margins. I warmly recommend that you interact with it yourself.' - H. Martin Wobst, Antiquity

'This, the offspring of the 1992 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference, must rank, in its breadth and diversity, as one of the most stimulating books in recent years on the evolution of hominid and early human culture ... It would be hard to come away from it without having been excited by some new thoughts or perspectives on the subjects covered.' - Journal of Human Evolution

'Most Palaeoanthropologists - not just archaeologists - will identify something of direct interest in this collection.' - The Archaeological Journal

O autorze

Shennan, Stephen; Steele, James