Author: Kenneth Page Oakley
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202366154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Author: Kenneth Page Oakley
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202366154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202366154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Author: Kenneth P. Oakley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351519220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a geologist and as a prehistorian, and has written this book first to meet the needs of archeologists wishing to learn the stratigraphical frameworks now applied to Quaternary deposits, and second to meet the needs of geologists requiring to know the terminology of Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351519220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a geologist and as a prehistorian, and has written this book first to meet the needs of archeologists wishing to learn the stratigraphical frameworks now applied to Quaternary deposits, and second to meet the needs of geologists requiring to know the terminology of Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures.
Guide to Fossil Man
Author: Michael H. Day
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226138893
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Michael H. Day's Guide to Fossil Man is the standard reference work on hominid remains found at the major palaeolithic sites throughout the world. This fourth edition now includes details of fifteen new sites, as well as new evidence from thirty-four previously known sites featured in earlier editions of the book. Day begins with an introduction to the anatomy of human fossils. He then describes the forty-nine sites in Europe, the Near East, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania that have yielded the most significant information on the development of hominid species and the appearance of early man. Grouped geographically, each site description includes data on the hominid remains, other finds such as tools and animal bones, the local geology and contemporary geomorphology and ecology, and dating and other references. Sites featured for the first time in this edition include Kow Swamp and Mungo in Australia; Dali and Maba in China; and West Turkana in Kenya, which contained the almost complete skeleton of a boy determined to be 1,600,000 years old. Short essays on problems associated with neandertal, australpithecine, and Homo erectus remains are included, as well as a glossary, a geological time scale, charts and comprehensive illustrations. Day's Guide to Fossil Man is invaluable not only for working palaeontologists, palaeolithic archaeologists, and physical anthropologists, but also for anyone interested in human evolution.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226138893
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Michael H. Day's Guide to Fossil Man is the standard reference work on hominid remains found at the major palaeolithic sites throughout the world. This fourth edition now includes details of fifteen new sites, as well as new evidence from thirty-four previously known sites featured in earlier editions of the book. Day begins with an introduction to the anatomy of human fossils. He then describes the forty-nine sites in Europe, the Near East, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania that have yielded the most significant information on the development of hominid species and the appearance of early man. Grouped geographically, each site description includes data on the hominid remains, other finds such as tools and animal bones, the local geology and contemporary geomorphology and ecology, and dating and other references. Sites featured for the first time in this edition include Kow Swamp and Mungo in Australia; Dali and Maba in China; and West Turkana in Kenya, which contained the almost complete skeleton of a boy determined to be 1,600,000 years old. Short essays on problems associated with neandertal, australpithecine, and Homo erectus remains are included, as well as a glossary, a geological time scale, charts and comprehensive illustrations. Day's Guide to Fossil Man is invaluable not only for working palaeontologists, palaeolithic archaeologists, and physical anthropologists, but also for anyone interested in human evolution.
Scientific Dating Methods
Author: H.Y. Göksu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792314615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Begins a series publishing courses and educational seminars organized by the Commission of European Communities' Joint Research Centre at Ispra, Italy. Perhaps as the series matures, responsible parties will see the wisdom of not trusting authors to present readable typescripts, of mentioning where
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792314615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Begins a series publishing courses and educational seminars organized by the Commission of European Communities' Joint Research Centre at Ispra, Italy. Perhaps as the series matures, responsible parties will see the wisdom of not trusting authors to present readable typescripts, of mentioning where
The Identity of Man
Author: Grahame Clark
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000907473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their awareness of gods and their intimations of immortality. What is it that differentiates us most decisively from the other Primates? He argues that the distinction is to be found primarily in the fact that, whereas the behaviour of other animals is largely dictated by their genes, we follow (or reject) cultural patterns inherited through belonging to societies shaped by history. Whereas other animals behave in a broadly homogenous way within breeding populations men adhere to the diversity of cultural traditions observed by ethnographers among peoples surviving on their fringes of the modern world and reconstructed by archaeologists from the cultural fossils of antiquity. Grahame Clark has written an original and fascinating study, drawing both on his lifetime’s experience of archaeological material and on a wide range of other sources to throw new light on the question of man’s identity. This is a must read for archaeologists and anthropologists.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000907473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their awareness of gods and their intimations of immortality. What is it that differentiates us most decisively from the other Primates? He argues that the distinction is to be found primarily in the fact that, whereas the behaviour of other animals is largely dictated by their genes, we follow (or reject) cultural patterns inherited through belonging to societies shaped by history. Whereas other animals behave in a broadly homogenous way within breeding populations men adhere to the diversity of cultural traditions observed by ethnographers among peoples surviving on their fringes of the modern world and reconstructed by archaeologists from the cultural fossils of antiquity. Grahame Clark has written an original and fascinating study, drawing both on his lifetime’s experience of archaeological material and on a wide range of other sources to throw new light on the question of man’s identity. This is a must read for archaeologists and anthropologists.
Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates, 1964-1968
Author: Charles Lewis Camp
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711347
Category : Vertebrates, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711347
Category : Vertebrates, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Prehistory
Author: M. C. Burkitt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Prehistory
Author: Derek A. Roe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349003581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349003581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Prehistory
Author: Derek Arthur Roe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022522
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022522
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Landscapes of Human Evolution
Author: James Cole
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789693802
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Fourteen papers are presented here in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789693802
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Fourteen papers are presented here in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art.