Casting the net wide : papers in honor of Glynn Isaac and his approach to human origins research / edited by Jeanne Sept and David Pilbeam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sept, Jeanne.

Pilbeam, David R.

Series:

American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Origin.

Human beings.

Human evolution.

Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn, 1937-1985.

Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, [2011]

Summary:

Over a quarter century after Isaac's premature death in 1985, archaeologists around the world continue to write about him and his work. Among the topics here are the evolution of palaeolandscape research at East Turkana as conversations with his ghost, the contribution of Kenya's West Turkana to the archaeology of human origins, honey and fire in human evolution, a geographic overview of encounters between Neanderthals and modern humans, and emergent issues in African archeology over the past 50 years. There is no index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Olorgesailie - Retrospective and current synthesis : contribution to the commemorative volume in honor of Glynn Isaac / Richard Potts

Conversations with Glynn's ghost : the evolution of paleolandscape research at East Turkana / Anna K. Behrensmeyer

Glynn Llywelyn Isaac : a recollection and retrospective assessment / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez

Factors affecting variability in early Stone Age lithic assemblages : personal observations from actualistic studies / Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick

Archaeology of human origins : the contribution of West Turkana (Kenya) / Hélène Roche

The empire of the Acheulean strikes back / John A.J. Gowlett

The diet of early humans : a summary of the critical arguments 40 years after Isaac's initial insights / Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

Glynn Isaac : memories and tribute / John D. Speth

Honey and fire in human evolution / Richard W. Wrangham

A worm's eye view of primate behavior / Jeanne Sept

A geographic overview of Neanderthal-modern human encounters / Ofer Bar-Yosef

Sorting out the muddle in the Middle East : Glynn Isaac's method of 'multiple working hypotheses' applied to theories of human evolution in the late Pleistocene Levant / John J. Shea

Scatters between the sites - farm shelters, hunting and gathering and the farming cycle in West Africa : lessons for archaeological distributions / Merrick Posnansky

In pursuit of the past : a consideration of emergent issues in African archaeology in the last fifty years / Francis B. Musonda

The tortoise and the ostrich egg : projecting the home base hypothesis into the 21st century / Brian A. Stewart, John Parkington, and John W. Fisher Jr.

A very particular kind of archaeologist / Bernard Wood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781842174548

1842174541

OCLC:

714722552