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  • Settling the Earth

    The Archaeology of Deep Human History

    by Clive Gamble ...
    In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that it was the imaginative ability to 'go beyond' and to create societies where people lived apart yet ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The World at 18 000 BP

    Volume 1, High Latitudes

    Edited by Olga Soffer, Clive Gamble ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: High Latitudes (first of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago. Following an introduction (common to the two volumes) on the diversity of human adaptations at the last glacial maximum, Volume 1 covers high latitudes: Europe, Asia ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The World at 18 000 BP

    Volume 2, Low Latitudes

    Edited by Clive Gamble, Olga Soffer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: Low Latitudes (second of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago. Following an introduction (common to the two volumes) on the diversity of human adaptations at the last glacial maximum, Volume 1 covers high latitudes: Europe, Asia ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Making Deep History

    Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859

    by Clive Gamble ...
    One afternoon in late April 1859 two geologically minded businessmen, John Evans and Joseph Prestwich, found and photographed the proof for great human antiquity. Their evidence -- small, hand-held stone tools found in the gravel quarries of the Somme among the bones of ancient animals -- shattered the timescale of Genesis and kicked open the door for a time revolution in human history. In the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Thinking Big

    How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

    by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett ...
    A closer look at genealogy, incorporating how biological, anthropological, and technical factors can influence human livesWe are at a pivotal moment in understanding our remote ancestry and its implications for how we live today. The barriers to what we can know about our distant relatives have been falling as a result of scientific advance, such as decoding the genomes of humans and Neanderthals, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Crossing the Human Threshold

    Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Middle Pleistocene

    Edited by Matt Pope, John McNabb, Clive Gamble ...
    Series series Frames and Debates in Deep Human History
    When was the human threshold crossed? What is the evidence for evolving humans and their emerging humanity? This volume explores in a global overview the archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, 800,000 to 130,000 years ago when evidence for innovative cultural behaviour appeared. The evidence shows that the threshold was crossed slowly, by a variety of human ancestors, and was not confined to one ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Hominid Individual in Context

    Archaeological Investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts

    Edited by Clive Gamble, Martin Porr ...
    This book explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists now have for the study of our early ancestors. 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 Palaeolithic brings new models and theories ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Missing Links

    In Search of Human Origins

    by John Reader ...
    This is the story of the search for human origins - from the Middle Ages, when questions of the earth's antiquity first began to arise, through to the latest genetic discoveries that show the interrelatedness of all living creatures. Central to the story is the part played by fossils - first, in establishing the age of the Earth; then, following Darwin, in the pursuit of possible 'Missing Links' ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Map That Changed the World

    William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

    by Simon Winchester ...
    From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating biography of science detailing the story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling scientific discovery that was ... Read more

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  • The Humans Who Went Extinct:Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    by Clive Finlayson ...
    Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story

    by Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse ...
    Series Book 0 - The Rediscovered Series
    “Even-handed, up-to-date, and clearly written. . . . If you want to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of Neanderthal controversies, you’ll find no better guide.” —Brian Fagan, author of Cro-MagnonIn recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthal has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Dinosaur Hunters

    A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World (Text Only Edition)

    by Deborah Cadbury ...
    The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.In ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ Deborah Cadbury brilliantly recreates the remarkable story of the bitter rivalry between two men: Gideon Mantell uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry, became obsessed with the lost world of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD