Early Human Behaviour in Global Context: The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic RecordRavi Korisettar, Michael D. Petraglia Early Human Behaviour in a Global Context will be of use to students and professionals who are interested in prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology, and paleoanthropology. Those interested in our ancestors and their place in the natural world will also benefit from the information presented in this book. Chapters focus on: * the nature of archaeological evidence * stone tool technology * subsistence practices * settlement distributions. |
Contents
background and overview | 1 |
evidence for global colonization | 24 |
3 Towards a technological reassessment of East African PlioPleistocene lithic assemblages | 81 |
a perspective from East Africa | 104 |
the Olduvai case | 130 |
6 The earliest South African industries | 146 |
7 The Lower Palaeolithic settlement of Eurasia with special reference to Europe | 181 |
8 Early colonizations and cultural continuities in the Lower Palaeolithic of western Asia | 215 |
10 Quaternary stratigraphy palaeoclimate and the Lower Palaeolithic of India | 298 |
11 The Lower Palaeolithic of India and its bearing on the Asian record | 339 |
12 Lower Palaeolithic occupations in Nepal in relation to South Asia | 386 |
13 Early Palaeolithic quartz industries in China | 407 |
14 The Early Palaeolithic of the eastern region of the Old World in comparison to the West | 425 |
archaeologys fifth big question | 439 |
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a reconsideration | 273 |
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Acheulian Acheulian assemblages alluvial archaeological record artefacts Australopithecus Bar-Yosef Basin bifaces bones Cambridge cave chert choppers chronology Clark cleavers climatic cobbles colonization contexts core-chopper cores cultural Current Anthropology dating Dennell deposits Developed Oldowan dispersal Dmanisi earliest Early Acheulian early hominid Early Pleistocene East Africa environments Eurasia Europe evidence excavated faunal Figure fission-track flakes fluvial Formation fossil geological glacial Goren-Inbar gravel habitats handaxes hominid hominid behaviour Homo erectus Human Evolution India indicate industry Journal of Human Koobi Koobi Fora Korisettar Late laterite Leakey Levant lithic Lower Palaeolithic Lower Pleistocene Middle Palaeolithic Middle Pleistocene Misra myr ago Narmada Nature occupation occurrences Oldowan Olduvai Gorge Plio-Pleistocene Pliocene Prehistory quartz quartzite Quaternary range raw material region River sample Schick sediments sequence silt Siwalik Soan South species Sterkfontein Stone Age stone tool stratigraphy studies surface Swartkrans technique technological tephra terrace Toth typological Ubeidiya Upper Valley variability western Asia Zhoukoudian