Rethinking the human revolution
Subtitle: new behavioural and biological perspectives on the origin and dispersal of modern humans
By: edited by Paul Mellars . . . [et al.].
Contributors: Mellars, Paul.
Series: McDonald Institute monographs
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; [Distributor] : David Brown Bk, Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781902937465
Subjects: Human beings -- Origin; Human evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Rethinking the human revolution: Eurasian and African perspectives / Paul Mellars; title: pt. 1. Biological and demographic perspectives on modern human origins. The origin and dispersal of Homo sapiens: our current state of knowledge / Chris Stringer; title: Complete MtDNA sequences: quest on 'Out-of-Africa' route completed? / Toomas Kivisild; title: New phylogenetic relationships for Y-chromosome Haplogroup I: reappraising its phylogeography and prehistory / Peter A. Underhill ... [et al.]; title: pt. 2. Cognitive perspectives on modern human origins. Body ornamentation as information technology: towards an understanding of the significance of early beads / Steven L. Kuhn & Mary C. Stiner; title: The significance of 'acculturation' depends on the meaning of 'culture' / Philip G. Chase; title: Putting it all together: a constructionist approach to the evolution of human mental capacities / Kathleen R. Gibson; title: Did a small but significant enhancement in working memory capacity power the evolution of modern thinking? / Thomas Wynn & Frederick L. Coolidge; title: The social brain and the cultural explosion of the human revolution / Robin I.M. Dunbar; title: Did syntax trigger the human revoluton? / Derek Bickerton; title: Music and the origin of modern humans / Steven Mithen; title: pt. 3. The archaeological and behavioural records in southern and eastern Africa. Fully symbolic Sapiens behavior: innovations in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa / Christopher Stuart Henshilwood; title: Down with the revolution / Sally McBrearty; title: Context and chronology of early Homo sapiens fossils from the Omo Kibish formation, Ethiopia / John J. Shea, John G. Fleagle & Selalem Assefa; title: pt. 4. The archaeological and behavioural records in central and northern Africa and the Near East. Modern is as modern does? Technological trends and thresholds in the south-central African record / Lawrence Barham; title: Abrupt climatic change and chronology of the upper Palaeolithic in northern and eastern Morocco / R. Nick Barton ... [et al.]; title: The place of northeast Africa in the early history of modern humans: new data and interpretations on the middle Stone Age / Philip Van Peer & Pierre M. Vermeersch; title: From the beginning: Levantine Upper Palaeolithic cultural change and continuity / Anna Belfer-Cohen & A. Nigel Goring-Morris; title: The dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia: a cultural interpretation / Ofer Bar-Yosef; title: The boulevard of broken dreams: evolutionary discontinuity in the late Pleistocene Levant / John J. Shea; title: pt. 5. The demographic and archaeological records in Europe. What can Neanderthals tell us about modern origins? / Jean-Jacques Hublin; title: The Peştera Cu Oase people, Europe's earliest modern humans / João Zilhão ... [et al.]; title: Re-evaluating the Aurignacian as an expression of modern human mobility and dispersal / William Davies; title: Evolution or revolution? New evidence for the origin of symbolic behaviour in and out of Africa / Francesco D'Errico & Marian Vanhaeren; title: Systems of personal ornamentation in the early upper Palaeolithic: methodological challenges and new observations / Randall White; title: Changing biodiversity and complexity across the middle-upper Palaeolithic transition / Katie Boyle; title: pt. 6. The archaeological and behavioural records in central and eastern Europe. The significance of blade technologies in the period 50-35 kyr BP for the middle Palaeolithic-upper Palaeolithic transition in central and eastern Europe / Janusz K. Kozlowski; title: On modern human penetration to northern Eurasia: the multiple advances hypothesis / Jiří A. Svoboda; title: Social intimacy, artefact visibility and acculturation models of Neanderthal-modern human interaction / Gilbert B. Tostevin; title: Arguments for population movement of anatomically modern humans from central Asia to Europe / Marcel Otte; title: Heading north: an africanist perspective on the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans / Curtis W. Marean; title: pt. 7. Asian and Australasian perspectives. Mind the gap: factoring the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent into Out of Africa models / Michael D. Petraglia; title: Pre-LGM Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea) and the archaeology of early modern humans / James F. O'Connell & Jim Allen; title: Through the looking glass: new evidence on the presence and behaviour of late pleistocene humans at Niah Cave, Sarawak, Borneo / Ryan Rabett & Graeme Barker.