Rethinking the human revolution : new behavioural and biological perspectives on the origin and dispersal of modern humans

Körperschaft: Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge)
Weitere Verfasser: Mellars, Paul
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2007.
Umfang/Format: xx, 436 p. : ill., tabl., diagr., maps ; 29 cm.
Schriftenreihe: McDonald Institute monographs
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The origin and dispersal of Homo sapiens : our current state of knowledge / Chris Stringer
  • Complete MtDNA sequences : quest on 'Out-of-Africa' route completed? / Toomas Kivisild
  • New phylogenetic relationships for Y-chromosome Haplogroup I : reappraising its phylogeography and prehistory / Peter A. Underhill ... [et al.]
  • Body ornamentation as information technology : towards an understanding of the significance of early beads / Steven L. Kuhn & Mary C. Stiner
  • The significance of 'acculturation' depends on the meaning of 'culture' / Philip G. Chase
  • Putting it all together : a constructionist approach to the evolution of human mental capacities / Kathleen R. Gibson
  • Did a small but significant enhancement in working memory capacity power the evolution of modern thinking? / Thomas Wynn & Frederick L. Coolidge
  • The social brain and the cultural explosion of the human revolution / Robin I.M. Dunbar
  • Did syntax trigger the human revoluton? / Derek Bickerton
  • Music and the origin of modern humans / Steven Mithen
  • Fully symbolic Sapiens behavior : innovations in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa / Christopher Stuart Henshilwood
  • Down with the revolution / Sally McBrearty
  • Context and chronology of early Homo sapiens fossils from the Omo Kibish formation, Ethiopia / John J. Shea, John G. Fleagle & Selalem Assefa
  • Modern is as modern does : technological trends and thresholds in the south-central African record / Lawrence Barham
  • Abrupt climatic change and chronology of the upper Palaeolithic in northern and eastern Morocco / R. Nick Barton ... [et al.]
  • The place of northeast Africa in the early history of modern humans : new data and interpretations on the middle Stone Age / Philip Van Peer & Pierre M. Vermeersch
  • From the beginning : Levantine Upper Palaeolithic cultural change and continuity / Anna Belfer-Cohen & A. Nigel Goring-Morris
  • The dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia : a cultural interpretation / Ofer Bar-Yosef
  • The boulevard of broken dreams : evolutionary discontinuity in the late Pleistocene Levant / John J. Shea
  • What can Neanderthals tell us about modern origins? / Jean-Jacques Hublin
  • The Peştera Cu Oase people, Europe's earliest modern humans / João Zilhão ... [et al.]
  • Re-evaluating the Aurignacian as an expression of modern human mobility and dispersal / William Davies
  • Evolution or revolution : new evidence for the origin of symbolic behaviour in and out of Africa / Francesco D'Errico & Marian Vanhaeren
  • Systems of personal ornamentation in the early upper Palaeolithic : methodological challenges and new observations / Randall White
  • Changing biodiversity and complexity across the middle-upper Palaeolithic transition / Katie Boyle
  • The significance of blade technologies in the period 50-35 kyr BP for the middle Palaeolithic-upper Palaeolithic transition in central and eastern Europe / Janusz K. Kozlowski
  • On modern human penetration to northern Eurasia : the multiple advances hypothesis / Jiří A. Svoboda
  • Social intimacy, artefact visibility and acculturation models of Neanderthal-modern human interaction / Gilbert B. Tostevin
  • Arguments for population movement of anatomically modern humans from central Asia to Europe / Marcel Otte
  • Heading north : an africanist perspective on the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans / Curtis W. Marean
  • Mind the gap : factoring the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent into Out of Africa models / Michael D. Petraglia
  • Pre-LGM Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea) and the archaeology of early modern humans / James F. O'Connell & Jim Allen
  • Through the looking glass : new evidence on the presence and behaviour of late pleistocene humans at Niah Cave, Sarawak, Borneo / Ryan Rabett & Graeme Barker.