Early Human Behaviour in Global Context: The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic Record

by Korisettar,Ravi

• ISBN13: 9780415117630
• ISBN10: 0415117631
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is the most up-to-date account of early human evidence across the Old World. The contributors discuss how our ancestors led their lives, with reference to the archaeological evidence in the Near East, Asia, Africa and Europe.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(5)
List of tables	xii	(2)
List of contributors	xiv	(2)
Preface	xvi
1 The archaeology of the Lower Palaeolithic: background and overview	1	(22)
Ravi Korisettar
Michael D. Petraglia
2 Techniques for the chronometry of the Palaeolithic: evidence for global colonization	23	(61)
Ashok K. Singhvi
Gunther A. Wagner
Ravi Korisettar
3 Towards a technological reassessment of East African Plio-Pleistocene lithic assemblages	84	(24)
Brian V. Ludwig
J.W.K. Harris
4 The lifeways of Homo erectus inferred from archaeology and evolutionary ecology: a perspective from East Africa	108	(25)
Susan Cachel
J.W.K. Harris
5 Raw material as evidence for human behaviour in the Lower Pleistocene: the Olduvai case	133	(18)
Daniel Stiles
6 The earliest South African industries	151	(36)
Kathleen Kuman
7 The Lower Palaeolithic settlement of Eurasia, with special reference to Europe	187	(34)
Nicolas Rolland
8 Early colonizations and cultural continuities in the Lower Palaeolithic of western Asia	221	(59)
Ofer Bar-Yosef
9 Grasslands, tool making and the hominid colonization of southern Asia: a reconsideration	280	(24)
Robin W. Dennell
10 Quaternary stratigraphy, palaeoclimate and the Lower Palaeolithic of India	304	(39)
Ravi Korisettar
S.N. Rajaguru
11 The Lower Palaeolithic of India and its bearing on the Asian record	343	(48)
Michael D. Petraglia
12 Lower Palaeolithic occupations in Nepal in relation to South Asia	391	(27)
Gudrun Corvinus
13 Early Palaeolithic quartz industries in China	418	(19)
Jian Leng
14 The Early Palaeolithic of the eastern region of the Old World in comparison to the West	437	(14)
J. Desmond Clark
15 Concluding remarks: archaeology's fifth big question	451	(18)
Clive Gamble
Index	469