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Landscapes of human evolution : contributions in honour of John Gowlett / edited by James Cole [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hominids--Evolution.
- Hominids.
- Human evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., [2020]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Contents Page
- Foreword
- James Cole, John McNabb, Matt Grove and Rob Hosfield
- A Good Man in Africa: John Gowlett's Writings on Africa and its Hominin Archaeology from the late 1970s to the early 2000s
- John McNabb
- Brain Size Evolution in the Hominin Clade
- Andrew Du and Bernard Wood
- Australopithecus or Homo? The postcranial evidence
- Robin Huw Crompton
- Evolutionary Diversity and Adaptation in Early Homo
- Alan Bilsborough and Bernard Wood
- Rift Dynamics and Archaeological Sites: Acheulean Land Use in Geologically Unstable Settings
- Simon Kübler, Geoff Bailey, Stephen Rucina, Maud Devès and Geoffrey C.P. King
- How many handaxes make an Acheulean? A case study from the SHK-Annexe site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
- Ignacio de la Torre and Rafael Mora
- An Acheulian Balancing Act: A Multivariate Examination of Size and Shape in Handaxes from Amanzi Springs, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Matthew V. Caruana and Andy I. R. Herries
- Reflections on Possible Zoomorphic Acheulean bifaces from Southwestern Algeria
- Thomas Wynn, Mohamed Sahnouni, Tony Berlant and Claude Douce
- Variable cognition in the evolution of Homo: biology and behaviour in the African Middle Stone Age
- Robert A. Foley and Marta Mirazón Lahr
- Initial source evaluation of archaeological obsidian from Middle Stone Age site Kilombe GqJh3 West 200, Kenya, East Africa
- The eternal triangle of human evolution
- Clive Gamble
- Climate, Fire and the Biogeography of Palaeohominins
- Fire, the Hearth (ocak) and Social Life: examples from an Alevi community in Anatolia
- David Shankland
- From Specialty to Specialist: a citation analysis of Evolutionary Anthropology, Palaeolithic Archaeology and the work of John Gowlett 1970-2018
- Anthony Sinclair
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- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781789693805
- 1789693802
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