1st Edition
Before Modern Humans New Perspectives on the African Stone Age
2 Stone Tool Technology and the Organizational Approach
3 The Organization of Early Stone Age Lithic Technology
4 The Organization of Middle Stone Age (MSA) Lithic Technology
5 Fear and Loathing in Paleolithic Faunal Analysis
6 Implications of Lower and Middle Pleistocene Faunal Assemblage Composition
7 Implications of Lower and Middle Pleistocene Hominin Bone Modification Patterns
8 Alternative Perspectives on Hominin Biological Evolution and Ecology
9 Conclusion
Biography
Grant S. McCall is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Anthropology of Tulane University, USA.
"Much of the current paleoanthropological research on the past 200,000 years focuses on the development of "modern" features of anatomy (fossils) and culture (through archaeology). Anthropologist McCall (Tulane) argues in this forceful volume that it is too much, and he proposes a more ecological and organizational approach to understanding the evolution of the human record prior to Homo sapiens...Some of these ideas are novel; others are becoming widely discussed in the field (there are few references since 2011). A good source for seminar discussions and conference arguments. Summing Up: Recommended."
- E. Delson, Lehman College CUNY
