Human evolution and prehistory
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Human evolution and prehistory
Harcourt College Publishers, c2000
5th ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [B1]-4) and index
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Description
This text is intended for the introductory courses that concentrate on physical anthropology and prehistoric archaeology. It offers a comprehensive and balanced presentation on the views of human evolution and prehistory. If focuses on selected aspects of physical anthropology and prehistoric archaeology as they related to the origin of culture and the development of human biological and cultural diversity. It features original studies in each chapter that illustrate how physical anthropologists and archaeologists conduct field research. This editon has a revised discussion of "Ardipithecus" and details of the Sterkfontein find - the world's first ever find of an entire ape-man skull - and its skeleton - dated at around 3.5 million years old.
Table of Contents
Part 1: The Study of Humankind. Part 2: Primate Evolution and the Emergence of the Hominines. Part 3: Evolution of the Genus Homo and the Development of Early Human Culture. Part 4: Human Biological and Cultural Evolution Since the Old Stone Age.
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