The hominid individual in context : archaeological investigations of lower and middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts / edited by Clive Gamble and Martin Porr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. From empty spaces to lived lives : exploring the individual in the Palaeolithic / Clive Gamble and Martin Porr -- 2. The Acheulean and the handaxe : structure and agency in the Palaeolithic / Terry Hopkinson and Mark J. White -- 3. Transformations in dividuality : personhood and palaeoliths in the Middle Pleistocene / A.S. Field -- 4. Seeking the Palaeolithic individual in east Africa and Europe during the lower-middle Pleistocene / J.A.J. Gowlett -- 5. The making of the biface and the making of the individual / Martin Porr -- 6. Observations on the relationship between Palaeolithic individuals and artefact scatters at the middle Pleistocene site of Boxgrove, UK / Matt Pope and Mark Roberts -- 7. The natural and socio-cultural environment of Homo erectus at Bilzingsleben, Germany / Dietrich Mania and Ursula Mania -- 8. The lower Palaeolithic art of hunting : the case of Schöningen 13 II-4, lower Saxony, Germany / Hartmut Thieme -- 9. Tracking hominins during the last interglacial complex in the Rhineland / D.S. Adler and N.J. Conard -- 10. Bones and powerful individuals : faunal case studies from the Arctic and the European middle Palaeolithic / Clive Gamble and Sabine Gaudzinski -- 11. All in a day's work : middle Pleistocene individuals, materiality and the lifespace at Makapansgat, South Africa / Anthony Sinclair and John Mcnabb -- 12. Life and mind in the Acheulean : a case study from India / Michael D. Petraglia, Ceri Shipton and K. Paddayya -- 13. Individuals among palimpsest data : fluvial landscapes in southern England / Robert Hosfield -- 14. Being modern in the middle Stone Age : individuals and innovation / C. Henshilwood and F. D'errico -- 15. Concluding remarks : context and the individual / Marcia-Anne Dobres.

This book explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists now have for the study of our early ancestors.

English.

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