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Art rupestre en Angola : province de Namibe
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ISBN: 9782842801502 2842801504 Year: 2009 Publisher: Saint-Maur-des Fosses Sepia


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The palaeolithic settlement of Asia
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ISBN: 9780521613101 0521613108 9780521848664 0521848660 9780511818882 1316040488 0511818882 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book provides the first analysis and synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia before the appearance of modern humans 100,000 years ago. Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in the search for human origins, but is no longer considered of marginal importance. Indeed, a global understanding of human origins cannot be properly understood without a detailed consideration of the largest continent. In this study, Robin Dennell examines a variety of sources, including the archaeological evidence, the fossil hominin record, and the environmental and climatic background from Southwest, Central, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as China. He presents an authoritative and comprehensive framework for investigations of Asia's oldest societies, challenges many long-standing assumptions about its earliest inhabitants, and places Asia centrally in the discussions of human evolution in the past two million years.


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L'homme et la mort : l'émergence du geste funéraire durant la préhistoire
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ISBN: 2271091187 2271068789 9782271068781 Year: 2009

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Questionner nos origines, comprendre l’évolution et la vie quotidienne, des grands singes aux premiers hommes et des premiers hommes à l’homme actuel, tel est le voyage dans le temps que vous propose la collection « Le passé recomposé ».


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Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan
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ISBN: 9048180597 1402090595 9786612037986 1282037986 1402090609 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins’ ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The appearance of stone tools has often been viewed as a threshold event, impacting directly and profoundly the later course of cultural and social evolution. Alternatively, it has been understood as a prelude to significant succeeding changes in behavioral, social and biological evolution of hominins. This book presents a series of recent enquiries into the technological and adaptive significance of Oldowan stone tools. While anchored in a long research tradition, these studies rely on recent discoveries and innovative analyses of the archaeological record of ca. 2.6 – 1.0 million years ago in Africa and Eurasia, dealing with the earliest lithic industries as manifestations of hominin adaptations and as expressions of hominin cognitive abilities.


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Interdisciplinary approaches to the Oldowan.
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ISBN: 9781402090608 9781402090592 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins' ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The appearance of stone tools has often been viewed as a threshold event, impacting directly and profoundly the later course of cultural and social evolution. Alternatively, it has been understood as a prelude to significant succeeding changes in behavioral, social and biological evolution of hominins. This book presents a series of recent enquiries into the technological and adaptive significance of Oldowan stone tools. While anchored in a long research tradition, these studies rely on recent discoveries and innovative analyses of the archaeological record of ca. 2.6 - 1.0 million years ago in Africa and Eurasia, dealing with the earliest lithic industries as manifestations of hominin adaptations and as expressions of hominin cognitive abilities.


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Social complexity in prehistoric Eurasia : monuments, metals, and mobility
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ISBN: 9780521517126 9780511605376 9780511605079 0511605072 0511605374 0521517125 9780511602788 0511602782 1107191211 1282317857 9786612317859 0511604343 0511603568 0511604777 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,


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Mortuary customs in prehistoric Malta : excavations at the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra (1987-94)
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ISBN: 9781902937496 190293749X Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research


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Creating communities : new advances in Central European neolithic research
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ISBN: 1782973303 1782973281 9781782973287 9781782973300 9781842173534 1842173537 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books,

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The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to further explore the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions of Neolithic society and lived experience. By embracing a variety of approaches and voices, this volume draws out some of the cross-cutting concerns which

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