The Origins of Human Behaviour

ISBN-13: 9780044450153 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 144 str.

Robert Foley; R. a. Foley; Robert A. Foley

Opis

The World Archaeological Congress meetings in Southampton in September 1986 included a series of sessions on the problems of Pleistocene archaeology. The chapters in this book derive from some of those discussions. In particular, this volume focuses on the problems facing prehistorians and palaeoanthropologists when trying to understand the long-term evolution of human behaviour and the patterns observable in the fossil and archaeological record of a period of time stretching over several million years.

Spis treści

Introduction: investigating the origins of human behaviour, R.A. Foley; Chapter 1 Chimpanzee material culture: what are its limits and why?, W.C. McGrew; Chapter 2 How useful is the culture concept in early hominid studies?, R.A. Foley; Chapter 3 The significance of modern hunter-gatherers in the study of early hominid behaviour, Francis B. Musonda; Chapter 4 Archaeological evidence for modern intelligence, Thomas Wynn; Chapter 5 The invention of computationally plausible knowledge systems in the Upper Palaeolithic, Sheldon Klein; Chapter 6 An interactive growth model applied to the expansion of Upper Palaeolithic populations, Ezra B.W. Zubrow; Chapter 7 Aboriginal fossil hominids: evolution and migrations, Phillip J. Habgood;

O autorze

Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge.