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This edited volume presents current archaeological research and data from the major early Acheulean sites in East Africa, and addresses three main areas of focus;

Australopithecus species have been the topic of much debate in palaeoanthropology since Raymond Dart described the first species, Australopithecus africanus, in 1925. This volume synthesizes the geological and paleontological context of the species in East and South Africa; debates the alpha taxonomy of some of the species;

This volume presents the current state of knowledge on the osseous projectile weaponry that was produced by Pleistocene cultures across the globe.

This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China.

This book contributes to the current discussion on climate change by presenting selected studies on the ways in which past human groups responded to climatic and environmental change.

This volume presents the current state of knowledge on the osseous projectile weaponry that was produced by Pleistocene cultures across the globe.

This volume 1 and its companion volume 2 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania.

Since the Western world first became aware of the existence of Neanderthals, this Pleistocene human has been a regular focus of interest among specialists and also among the general public.

The aim of this book is to provide a new insight on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romani rockshelter (north-eastern Spain).

The aim of this book is to provide a new insight on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romani rockshelter (north-eastern Spain).

This volume presents the cutting-edge research of leading scientists, re-examining the major debates in Neanderthal research with the use of innovative methods and exciting new theoretical approaches.

An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins' ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning.

Still other issues relate to growth, development and life history strategies, and the biological and archeological evidence for diet and behavior in early Homo.

The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Neanderthal fossils gave reason for an international and interdisciplinary symposium in Bonn/Germany.

The Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China embodies the bulk of our knowledge on successions of terrestrial vertebrates in the northern part of East Asia.

Australopithecus species have been the topic of much debate in palaeoanthropology since Raymond Dart described the first species, Australopithecus africanus, in 1925. This volume synthesizes the geological and paleontological context of the species in East and South Africa; debates the alpha taxonomy of some of the species;

As can hopefully be seen in the volume, Although this is a fundamental research topic, much of the these papers provide important reviews of the current research research continues to be undertaken by specialists and there in these areas, as well as often present new research on dietary is, with some notable exceptions (e.

Covering both North and South America, this volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of mostly large terrestrial mammals.

This volume presents the work of researchers at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene.

This book presents analyses of burned and unburned flint items which provide evidence for the controlled use of fire at the 790,000-year-old Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov. It shows that fire was already in regular use some 800,000 years ago.

This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. Papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa, including detailed reconstructions of the paleoenvironment and possible migration routes.

For the first two thirds of our evolutionary history, we hominins were restricted to Africa. What do we know about the adaptations of the hominins that dispersed - their diet, locomotor abilities, cultural abilities? Was the hominin dispersal part of a broader faunal expansion of African mammals northward?

This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. Papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa, including detailed reconstructions of the paleoenvironment and possible migration routes.

Still other issues relate to growth, development and life history strategies, and the biological and archeological evidence for diet and behavior in early Homo.

This volume presents the work of researchers at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene.

For the first two thirds of our evolutionary history, we hominins were restricted to Africa. What do we know about the adaptations of the hominins that dispersed - their diet, locomotor abilities, cultural abilities? Was the hominin dispersal part of a broader faunal expansion of African mammals northward?

The site is also important due to the discovery of Neanderthal remains by the current research group in addition to the Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils during a previous phase of excavation work led by M.

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