Oscar Moro Abadía is Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Some of his recent publications include Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization: Rock Art in the 21st Century (with Margaret Conkey and Josephine McDonald; Springer, 2024) and Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges (with Martin Porr; Routledge, 2021).

“I am quite simply stunned by this book… I feel certain that this book will become a landmark volume .” • Andrew M. Jones, Professor of Archaeology, Stockholm University

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Alterity and Human Evolution: Deep-Time Perspectives on Difference and VariationMartin Porr and Oscar Moro AbadíaPart I: Alterity and the (Biological) Species ConceptChapter 1. Science and the SacredJonathan MarksChapter 2. The “Other” Homo Erectus: Individuals, Identity, and Inference in the Human Fossil RecordSusan C. AntónChapter 3. Species as Alterity: Moving Beyond Species in PaleoanthropologySang-Hee Lee and Cathy WillermetChapter 4. Like Us/Not Like Us: Critical Theory, Anthropology, and the Neanderthal DilemmaBrian BoydChapter 5. Alternative Evolutionary Pathways of Emotional Responses in Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH), and the Co-evolution of Neurobiology and CulturePenny SpikinsPart II: Alterity, History, and ReflexivityChapter 6. Narratives of “Other” in the Emergence of the Genus HomoLauren Schroeder, Yonatan Sahle, Sheela Athreya, and Rebecca Rogers AckermannChapter 7. Neanderthals and the Issue of Masculinity: The Role of Gender in Popular Neanderthal DiscourseSusan Peeters and Hub ZwartChapter 8. The Hero of Human Evolution: Deconstructing Illustrations of Human Evolution and Considering the Place of ChildrenMichelle C. LangleyChapter 9. Normal Is Not What You Think It Is! Challenging the Ascription of Contemporary Normativity to Patterns and Processes in Human EvolutionAgustin FuentesChapter 10. Interpreting Variability, Diversity, and Alterity in the Hominin Fossil RecordMathilde LequinPart III: Against Alterity: Critical InterventionChapter 11. Alterity Is a Violent Western Construct: In Indigenous Worldviews, We Are All RelatedPaulette SteevesPart IV: Alterity as an Ontological and Epistomological ChallengeChapter 12. A Critical Ontology of the Archaeology of Human OriginsBenjamin AlbertiChapter 13. Thinking about “Radical” Alterity: Why Did Animal Image-Making Disappear in Paleolithic Europe?Oscar Moro Abadía, Margaret W. Conkey, Manuel R. González Morales, Bryn Tapper, Eduardo Palacio Pérez, and Amy ChaseChapter 14. Paleolithic Art as a Dynamic Symbolic System: From Worldviews to Image-MakingCarole FritzChapter 15. The Alterity of Deep History and the Hospitality of ThingsClive GambleChapter 16. Alterity Evolving: Evolution, Cognition, and Social OntologySiobhan Guerrero Mc ManusChapter 17. Multispecies Alterity: Interrogating Hominin, Animal and Techno-material Diversities of the Deep PastShumon Tobias HussainIndex