Human Antiquity : An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

by FEDER

• ISBN13: 9780073041964
• ISBN10: 0073041963
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-24
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Where did we come from? To answer this question, anthropologists reconstruct the human past and study the human present from both biological and cultural perspectives. Human Antiquity offers an absorbing, straightforward explanation of human origins and evolution by thoroughly integrating physical anthropology and archaeology. Kenneth Feder is an archeologist who conducts surveys, excavations, and analyses to understand the native inhabitants of New England. Michael Park is a biological anthropologist interested in the application of evolutionary theory to the biological history of our species. This book combines the ideas, methods, and knowledge from both biological anthropology and archaeology to into a unified effort.

Table of Contents

PART I. THINKING ABOUT THE PAST

1. Frameworks

2. Eden Questioned: Historical Perspectives

3. Evolution: An Overview

PART II. THE STUDY OF THE PAST

4. Understanding Change: Modern Evolutionary Theory

5. Learning About the Past: Primates

6. Learning About the Past: Behavioral Models for Human Evolution

7. Learning About the Past: The Material Record

PART III. THE STORY OF THE HUMAN PAST

8. Early Hominid Evolution

9. Evolution of the Genus Homo

10. The Evolution of Modern Humanity

11. New Ideas, New Worlds: Life in the Late Stone Age and Upper Paleolithic

12. The Origins of Agriculture

13. The Evolution of Civilization

Epilogue: Unanswered Questions

An Evolutionary Afterword

Glossary of Human and Nonhuman Primates

Glossary of Terms

Bibliography

Index