1st Edition
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry Power, Sex and Tradition
472 Pages
by
Routledge
472 Pages
by
Routledge
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? The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and... Read more
List of illustrations, List of tables, List of contributors, General editor’s prefacw, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO HOMINID SOCIOECOLOGY, PART II: ORIGINS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD, PART III: THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR IN MODERN HUMAN FORAGING SOCIETIES, PART IV: COGNITION AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS IN MODERN HUMAN SOCIETIES, Index
Biography
Shennan, Stephen; Steele, James
'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
