This volume explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed
information that archaeologists have for the study of our earliest
ancestors. Previous investigations of human evolution in the
Paleolithic period have conventionally been from an ecological and
behavioral point of view. The emphasis has been on how our early
ancestors made a living, decided what to eat, adapted through their
technology to the conditions of existence and reacted to changing
ice age climates. The "Individual Hominid in Context" takes a
different approach.
Rather than explaining the archaeology of stones and bones as the
product of group decisions, the contributors investigate how
individual action created social life. This challenge to the
accepted standpoint of the Paleolithic brings new models and
theories into the period; innovations that are matched by the
resolution of the data that preserve individual action among the
artifacts. The book brings together examples from recent
excavations at Boxgrove, Schoningen and Blombos Cave, and the
analyses of findings from Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene
excavations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The results will
revolutionize the Paleolithic as archaeologists search for the
lived lives among the empty spaces that remain.
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