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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Bulletin
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Paleontology in China, 1979
Author: Zhongguo gu sheng wu xue hui. Quan guo hui yuan dai biao da hui
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813721873
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813721873
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Paleoanthropology and Paleolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China
Author: Wu Rukang
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131542312X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book represents the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the great advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People’s Republic of China. The 15 chapters are devoted to a historical overview of past and recent studies, the development of chronological frameworks, the composition and stratigraphy of vertebrate fauna, the pongid and hominid palaeontological records, and Pleistocene prehistoric archaeology. Maps, illustrations and tables illustrate the materials presented here.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131542312X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book represents the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the great advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People’s Republic of China. The 15 chapters are devoted to a historical overview of past and recent studies, the development of chronological frameworks, the composition and stratigraphy of vertebrate fauna, the pongid and hominid palaeontological records, and Pleistocene prehistoric archaeology. Maps, illustrations and tables illustrate the materials presented here.
Chinese Fossil Vertebrates
Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231504616
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of vertebrate paleontological studies in China and an entrée to some important issues of systematics, evolutionary history, paleoecology, taphonomy, and functional anatomy best elucidated by China's fossils.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231504616
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of vertebrate paleontological studies in China and an entrée to some important issues of systematics, evolutionary history, paleoecology, taphonomy, and functional anatomy best elucidated by China's fossils.
Geological Survey Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Geology of the Attean Quadrangle, Somerset County, Maine
Author: Eugene L. Boudette
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Description of the geology of a glaciated terrane of lower Paleozoic rocks along the crest of the Boundary Mountain anticlinorium.
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Description of the geology of a glaciated terrane of lower Paleozoic rocks along the crest of the Boundary Mountain anticlinorium.
The Shanidar Neandertals
Author: Erik Trinkaus
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483276473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The Shanidar Neandertals describes the functional morphology of the Neanderthals and their place in human evolution based on a paleontological study of fossils discovered at Shanidar Cave in northeastern Iraq. Functional interpretations are provided that describe and discuss the individual fossils. The phylogenetic implications of the Shanidar specimens are also discussed. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the Neanderthal remains from the Shanidar Cave and the paleontological data obtained from the fossils. The discussion then turns to the history of the excavations in Shanidar Cave and the discoveries of the Neanderthals; morphometrics of the Shanidar remains; and determination of the age and sex of the Shanidar Neanderthals. Subsequent chapters focus on various aspects of the Neanderthal fossils, including the cranial and mandibular remains; the dental remains; the axial skeleton; and the upper and lower limb remains. The immature remains are also described, along with bodily proportions and the estimation of stature. This monograph will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and paleopathologists.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483276473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The Shanidar Neandertals describes the functional morphology of the Neanderthals and their place in human evolution based on a paleontological study of fossils discovered at Shanidar Cave in northeastern Iraq. Functional interpretations are provided that describe and discuss the individual fossils. The phylogenetic implications of the Shanidar specimens are also discussed. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the Neanderthal remains from the Shanidar Cave and the paleontological data obtained from the fossils. The discussion then turns to the history of the excavations in Shanidar Cave and the discoveries of the Neanderthals; morphometrics of the Shanidar remains; and determination of the age and sex of the Shanidar Neanderthals. Subsequent chapters focus on various aspects of the Neanderthal fossils, including the cranial and mandibular remains; the dental remains; the axial skeleton; and the upper and lower limb remains. The immature remains are also described, along with bodily proportions and the estimation of stature. This monograph will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and paleopathologists.
Early Paleolithic in South and East Asia
Author: Fumiko Ikawa-Smith
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110810034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110810034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Shells from the San Men Series
Author: Nils Hjalmar Odhner
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Category : Mollusks, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Category : Mollusks, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Dragon Bone Hill
Author: Noel T. Boaz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190288329
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, scientists Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon retell the story of the cave's unique species of early human, Homo erectus. Boaz and Ciochon take readers on a gripping scientific odyssey. New evidence shows that Homo erectus was an opportunist who rode a tide of environmental change out Africa and into Eurasia, puddle-jumping from one gene pool to the next. Armed with a shaky hold on fire and some sharp rocks, Homo erectus incredibly survived for over 1.5 million years, much longer than our own species Homo sapiens has been on Earth. Tell-tale marks on fossil bones show that the lives of these early humans were brutal, ruled by hunger and who could strike the hardest blow, yet there are fleeting glimpses of human compassion as well. The small brain of Homo erectus and its strangely unchanging culture indicate that the species could not talk. Part of that primitive culture included ritualized aggression, to which the extremely thick skulls of Homo erectus bear mute witness. Both a vivid recreation of the unimagined way of life of a prehistoric species, so similar yet so unlike us, and a fascinating exposition of how modern multidisciplinary research can test hypotheses in human evolution, Dragon Bone Hill is science writing at its best.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190288329
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, scientists Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon retell the story of the cave's unique species of early human, Homo erectus. Boaz and Ciochon take readers on a gripping scientific odyssey. New evidence shows that Homo erectus was an opportunist who rode a tide of environmental change out Africa and into Eurasia, puddle-jumping from one gene pool to the next. Armed with a shaky hold on fire and some sharp rocks, Homo erectus incredibly survived for over 1.5 million years, much longer than our own species Homo sapiens has been on Earth. Tell-tale marks on fossil bones show that the lives of these early humans were brutal, ruled by hunger and who could strike the hardest blow, yet there are fleeting glimpses of human compassion as well. The small brain of Homo erectus and its strangely unchanging culture indicate that the species could not talk. Part of that primitive culture included ritualized aggression, to which the extremely thick skulls of Homo erectus bear mute witness. Both a vivid recreation of the unimagined way of life of a prehistoric species, so similar yet so unlike us, and a fascinating exposition of how modern multidisciplinary research can test hypotheses in human evolution, Dragon Bone Hill is science writing at its best.