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Title: The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe by Clive Gamble, Norman Yoffee ISBN: 0-521-65872-1 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Insights Buried in Data
Comment: This book attempts to analyze European culture over the 500,000 years before history despite the fact that culture is not directly preserved in the archaeological record. The analysis is ingenious. The author draws on scientific evidence such as skeletons, stone tools, hearth sites, etc. and asks of each element, "How could this have fit into a society?" For example, if you have an old stone age hand axe, you can fell small trees. Presumably you would do so, repeatedly. That's a lot of chopping. Chopping would become a well-practiced gesture in your behavioral repertoire. Would it become generalized to other situations? It's reasonable to think that it would. What could you do with that gesture? Could you use it to communicate? To think abstractly about obstacles in general? The traversal from scientific data point to psychological and social inference is performed repeatedly in the book. It's exciting, very Sherlock-Holmesy. The book is quite difficult to read, especially for the non specialist, like me. It is thick with scientific jargon and dense with minutia. But every few pages there is one of these terrific inferences that makes you think again about how our very earliest ancestors lived.
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Title: Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology by Kathy D. Schick, Nicholas Toth ISBN: 0671693719 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $39.50 |
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Title: In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record: With a New Afterword by Lewis Roberts Binford ISBN: 0520233395 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice by Colin Renfrew, Paul G. Bahn ISBN: 0500281475 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $56.80 |
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Title: Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind by Randall White ISBN: 0810942623 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Principles of Human Evolution: A Core Textbook by Roger Lewin ISBN: 0865425426 Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $76.95 |
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