TY - BOOK ID - 85917901 TI - From primitives to primates PY - 2012 SN - 1299289126 9088901287 9088900957 9789088901287 9789088900952 PB - Leiden Sidestone Press DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology, Prehistoric KW - Anthropology KW - Ethnoarchaeology. KW - Primates. KW - History. KW - Comparative method. KW - Quadrumana KW - Mammals KW - Ethnic archaeology KW - Ethnicity in archaeology KW - Ethnology in archaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Ethnology KW - Social archaeology KW - Human beings KW - Prehistoric anthropology KW - Methodology KW - Primitive societies KW - Social sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85917901 AB - Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th century to this day - often far beyond the available evidence. Victorian scholars were keen to look at contemporary Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals to understand the enigmatic Neanderthal fossils. Likewise, today's primatologists debate to what extent bonobos, baboons or chimps may be regarded as stand-ins for early human ancestors. The belief that the contemporary ER -