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Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones
A Manual
Häftad, 2013
453 kr
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Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual provides an important new reference for students, avocational …
Human Origins
What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves
Av Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall
Häftad, 2012
328 kr
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Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humans—bipedal apes, actually—first emerged in …
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Av C. Britt Bousman, Bradley J. Vierra
Inbunden, 2012
812 kr
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The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) …
People of Palomas
Neandertals from the Sima De Las Palomas Del Cabezo Gordo, Southeastern Spain
Av Erik Trinkaus, Michael J. Walker
Inbunden, 2017
697 kr
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The Neandertal site at Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, located in Murcia in southeastern Spain, is unique in several respects. Its most important contribution to the field of study, however, may be the fact that it consists of the remains of multiple individuals, adding appreciable breadth to …
Fathers and Their Children in the First Three Years of Life
An Anthropological Perspective
Inbunden, 2019
570 kr
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How ancient is father care of human infants and young children, and why did it emerge? Is it possible that father care arose among the ancestors of modern humans and became essential for survival? Or is it a recent, though variable, development? Is father care an evolved trait of Homo sapiens or is …
Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China
Inbunden, 2010
509 kr
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For more than a century, scientists have returned time and again to the issue of modern human emergence-the when and where of the evolutionary process and the human behavioral and biological dynamics involved The 2003 discovery of a human partial skeleton at Tianyuandong (Tianyuan Cave) excited …
Race?
Debunking a Scientific Myth
Av Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle
Inbunden, 2011
314 kr
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Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race.To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical …
Prehistory of Texas
Av Timothy K. Perttula, Timothy K. Perttula
Häftad, 2013
783 kr
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Paleoindians first arrived in Texas more than eleven thousand years ago, although relatively few sites of such early peoples have been discovered. Texas has a substantial post-Paleoindian record, however, and there are more than fifty thousand prehistoric archaeological sites identified across the …
Toyah Phase of Central Texas
Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes
Av Nancy Adele Kenmotsu, Douglas K. Boyd
Inbunden, 2012
524 kr
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In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a …
Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
Inbunden, 2013
409 kr
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Four thousand years ago bands of hunter-gatherers lived in and travelled through the challenging terrain of what is now southwest Texas and northern Mexico. Today travellers to that land can view large art panels they left behind on the rock walls of Rattlesnake Canyon, White Shaman Cave, Panther …
