Early Man History

EARLY MAN The Great Discoveries The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Northdurft with Josh Smith. In 1911 a young German palaeontologist Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, whilst exploring the Egyptian desert for fossil evidence of early mammals, discovered four enormous new dinosaur species and other fossil specimens. His story is one of discovery, ‘shipments delayed for years by war, fossils shattered in transit, stunning personal and professional setbacks’. This book tells his story alongside that of an American-led expedition launched 89 years later to rediscover von Reichenbach’s dinosaur graveyard. 242p, b/w pls (Random House 2003) Hb £18.99 The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois by Pat Shipman. This novel-style biography tells the story of Eugene Dubois (1858-1940), a Dutchman who made one of the most significant discoveries in the history of investigations into early man – a fossil of Pithecanthropus erectus, later known as Homo erectus. Based on letters, diaries and photographs, this book tells a remarkable story of a journey for recognition. 580p, b/w pls (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2001, Phoenix Pb 2002) Pb £8.99 The Piltdown Forgery: The Classic Account of the Most Famous and Successful Hoax in Science by J S Weiner. Fifty years ago, on 21 November 1953, the puzzle behind the Piltdown Man was finally solved by three scientists, one of whom was Joseph Weiner, the author of this book. Weiner describes the acclaim that followed the discovery of the bones in 1912 by Arthur Smith Woodward and Charles Dawson. This euphoria was speedily replaced by confusion as the remains did not make sense, evolutionally-speaking. The new forensic techniques of the 1940s identified the jawbone as that of an orang-utan but even today the identity of the culprit behind the hoax is open to debate. Weiner’s fascinating account has a new preface and afterword by Chris Stringer of London’s Natural History Museum who updates the story. 212p, 9 b/w pls (Oxford UP 1955, special edn 2003) Pb £8.99 Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson and the World’s Greatest Archaeological Hoax by Miles Russell. In 1912 Charles Dawson, Britain’s most eminent amateur palaeontologist, discovered the missing link in a quarry outside the small town of Piltdown in Sussex. In 1953 Piltdown Man was finally announced a fraud and the backlash against Dawson began. Russell’s new book is an extremely readable investigation of Dawson’s guilt, or otherwise, asking whether he was responsible for other fabrications during his illustrious career and, if he was, why did he go to so much trouble? A dubious Neolithic axe, human shadows on a dungeon wall, and an anvil with ‘1515’ stamped on it are just a few of Dawson’s claim to fame. Added to this are his sightings of sea monsters in the Channel and rare exotic birds flying above Hastings. In each case, including Piltdown Man, Russell presents the facts as we know them today and then delivers his judgement and looks for the culprit. Dawson’s extraordinary career and the troubled origins of archaeological science are both vividly brought to life. 288p, 105 b/w illus (Tempus 2003) Pb £14.99 Prehistoric Past Revealed: The Four Billion Year History of Life on Earth by Douglas Palmer. Advances in geology and palaeontology, and in scientific techniques, over the past few centuries has led to a radical rethinking of our assumptions about our past. This introduction to our human ancestry is told through a sequence of major discoveries (primarily consisting of stones and bones). Each episode of the story is based around a major fossil find. ‘With its informative and approachable text, timelines, photographs and artworks, Prehistoric Past Revealed tells the story of our place in nature and how these discoveries have irrevocably changed our world view.’ 176p, many col pls and illus (Mitchell Beazley 2003) Hb £20.00 The Story of Peking Man by Penny van Oosterzee. At the turn of the 20th century the amateur fossil collector K A Harberer discovered a human tooth amongst a collection of fossil bones that he bought from a Chinese apothecary. This enjoyable and popular account, now available in a revised paperback, re-enacts and describes the succeeding decades as European and Chinese scientists strove to excavate and collect early hominid bones, including Peking Man, in often treacherous and dangerous conditions. This is a book that combines science and journalistic investigation with occasional fictional reconstruction, supported by photographs and extracts from journals and letters. 198p, b/w figs (Allen and Unwin 1999, rev Pb 2001) Pb £7.99 The Year of the Ghost: An Olduvai Diary by Derek Roe. In January 1983 Derek Roe embarked on his first journey to Tanzania as ghost writer to Mary Leakey, a name synonymous with the famous palaeolithic site of Olduvai Gorge. This diary covers Roe’s three trips to visit Mary and also includes correspondence between them both before and after 1983, as well as snippets from their earlier meetings. It is an honest, at times intimate and frank record of their relationship, of Mary’s life and work in Africa, of the site of Olduvai Gorge and the impact that the discoveries made there have had on the archaeological world. 186p, illus (Western Academic and Specialist Press 2002) Hb £16.95 From Lucy to Language by Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar. This glossy account of the life work of Donald Johanson, who discovered the ‘Lucy’ skeleton in 1974, aims to answer fundamental questions about the origins of human beings and consciousness. A well-illustrated discussion of the diversity of early human life, its culture, society and customs, is followed by profiles of over fifty of the most significant early human fossils. 272p, 155 col pls (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1996, Cassell Pb 2001) Pb £18.99 Evolution, Climate Change and the Environment Archéologie et systèmes socio-environnementaux edited by Sander van der Leeuw, François Favory and Jean-Luc Fiches. The Archaeomedes Project, of which this volume is a part, was set up to study processes of aridification and desertification in certain regions of Europe. This particular volume presents a series of multi-disciplinary studies on the Rhone Valley and the natural and other processes that have led to environmental change in the past. The first part of the volume introduces the work of the Archaeomedes Project and then goes on to look at the dynamics of socio-natural responses to the state of the environment by societies that occupied parts of the Rhone Valley. The remainder of the volume includes a detailed study of the Roman period, looking at the diffusion of economic strategies from imperial Rome from the end of the 2nd century BC to the end of the 5th century AD. French text. 403p, 257 b/ w figs, 24 pls (CNRS 2003) Pb £42.50 De la garenne au clapier: étude archéozoologique du Lapin en Europe occidentale by Cécile Callou. One of the most prominent invasions of western Europe was not from barbarian hordes or Vikings, but from rabbits. From the rabbit warren to the hutch explores the natural migration of wild rabbits across western Europe in the Holocene. Callou studies the processes by which this ‘invasion’ took place, what environmental and climatic factors affected it and how rabbits and their populations evolved over time from the Middle Pleistocene to the modern era. Archaeological remains are placed alongside historical evidence and biological and taxonomic issues and morphological variation are considered. Finally, the domestication of the rabbit in the 18th century is discussed. An inventory of modern and fossil species with distinctive features is provided. French text; English abstract. 358p, b/w figs, tbs (Mémoires du muséum national d’histoire naturelle 2003) Hb £65.00 Hominoid Evolution and Climate Change in Europe Vol 1: The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe edited by Jorge Agusti, Lorenzo Rook and Peter Andrews. Leading researchers from across Europe are brought together here in discussing Europe’s past climatic history and its relationship to human evolution. Drawing on evidence from geology, palaeontology and biology, environmental and climate change are traced from 18 to 1.6 million years ago. Includes climate-modelling, environmental evidence for reconstructing past environments and analysis of the constrictions caused by various environmental factors. 512p (Cambridge UP 1999) Hb £75.00 Vol 2: Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia edited by Louis de Bonis, George D Koufos and Peter Andrews. A collection of sixteen papers which analyse specific fossil hominoids from Spain, Italy, Turkey and Greece dated to between 12 and 8 million years ago. The papers, intended for palaeoanthropologists and palaeontologists, are divided into three sections: chronology and environment; methods and phylogeny; Miocene hominoids: function and phylogeny. 372p, b/w illus, tbs (Cambridge UP 2001) Hb £75.00 Lebendige Eiszeit by Wighart V Koenigswald. This volume provides a colourful survey of the climate and fauna of Europe’s last Ice Age, based on an analysis of environmental remains, including numerous animal corpses mummified by ice, geology and Palaeolithic sites, artefacts and rock art. The study focuses throughout on the movement of large and small animal species as the ice ebbed and flowed, with each section supported by lots of colour photographs and maps. German text. 190p, many col illus (Theiss 2002) Hb £34.50 8 Mouvements ou déplacements de populations animals en Méditerranée au cours de l’Holocène edited by Armelle Gardeisen. The theme of this 15th seminar of research by the Unité Mixte de Recherches 154 du CNRS de Lattes, held in LattesMontpellier in 2000, is the archaeology of animals. The thirteen French and two English papers represent the work of groups of specialist individuals and projects working in the field of archaeozoology during the Holocene. Subjects include: the movement and displacement of animals in the Mediterranean, animals at altitude in the southern Alps, extinctions on Sardinia, bovine populations in France, pastoral specialisation, fish populations in the Iron Age. 151p, b/w figs (BAR S017, 2002) Pb £39.00 L’Ours et L’Homme edited by Thierry Tillet and Lewis R Binford. An international line-up of scholars from a colloquium held in d’Auberives-en-Royans near Grenoble in 1997, present evidence for the presence and evolution of bears in prehistory. Prehistorians, historians, biologists, zoologists, palaeontologists among others, address the non-economic role of bears in prehsitoric society and their interaction and relationship with man. Many of the papers focus on discoveries of bear bones at sites across Europe, and address the question of whether a cave bear cult existed. French text; English abstracts. 299p, b/ w figs, tbs (Eraul 2002) Pb £36.50 Under the Canopy: The Archaeology of Tropical Rain Forests edited by Julio Mercader. The long-held belief that tropical rain forests were unfriendly environments for human occupation in the PleistoceneHolocene is fundamentally challenged by the evidence cited in this book. A series of case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia discuss evidence for rain forests which supported continuous huntergatherer populations from an early age. Archaeological, ecological and climatic evidence combine to provide important insights into human development and cultural diversity in the Middle and Late Stone Age. 322p, b/w figs, tbs (Rutgers UP 2002) Hb £46.95 When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time by Michael J Benton. The rather sensationalist title of this book is clearly warranted in this case as it aptly describes a cataclysmic event that almost completely wiped out all life on land and sea. 251 million years ago, 90% of life on earth was destroyed by an event of massive proportions. Scientists have put forward two main explanations – a huge meteorite hitting earth, or a volcanic eruption of great magnitude. Michael Benton examines each theory and the evidence used to support them but, beyond this, his book is an exploration of the field of geological and palaeontological investigation and how the science of exploring and explaining the past has developed. 336p, 46 b/w pls (Thames and Hudson 2003) Hb £16.95 World Ecological Degradation. Accumulation, Urbanization and Deforestation 3000 BC-AD 2000 by Sing C Chew. Sing Chew focuses on the long-term relationship between human cultures and the environment and, in particular, the overuse of natural resources as human society expanded and became more complex and more demanding. His case studies are drawn from the Near East, Bronze Age Crete and Mycenae, Greece and Rome, the Far East, the European Middle Ages and the modern periods. He concludes that, from the long-term persepctive, the nature of this relationship has changed very little and that we continue to over-exploit resources. 217p 12 b/w figs, 4 tbs (AltaMira 2001) Hb £47.00, Pb £18.95 Zooarchaeological insights into Magdalenian Lifeways edited by Sandrine Costamagno and Véronique Laroulandie. Eleven papers from a session on Stone Age (Magdalenian) Europe presented at the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, in 2001. Subjects include: Reindeer and Red Deer populations in Central and Eastern Europe during the Magdalenian; Reconsidering hunting specialisation in the German Magdalenian faunal record; Horse hunting and the utilization of horse carcasses during the Magdalenian in Europe; Characterisation and exploitation of the Arctic Hare (Lepus timidus) during the Magdalenian: Surprising data from Gazel Cave (Aude, France). French and English papers. 138p (Archaeopress BAR S1144, 2003) Pb £28.00 In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall. Originally published in 1971 and revised in 1988, this is a new edition of one of the most famous natural history case studies which illustrates the similarities between chimpanzees and ourselves. Goodall’s meticulous observation revealed hitherto unknown chimpanzee behaviour, most notoriously infanticide and cannibalism, and her informal prose vividly reflects her understanding and respect for the community. 296p, b/w pls (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1988, Phoenix 1999) Pb £7.99 Primate Fossil Record by Walter Hartwig. This important new reference work explores the history, discovery and interpretation of primate fossils. Fully illustrated throughout, it discusses the origin of primates through to the advent of anatomically modern humans. Aimed primarily at academic researchers and graduate students. 608p, 107 figs, 347 b/w illus, 19 tbs (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Cambridge UP 2002) Hb £130.00 Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record edited by J Michael Plavcan, Richard F Kay, et al. A collection of papers ‘that address the topic of reconstructing behavior in the primate fossil record’. They cover a broad range of subjects based on different forms of evidence including diet and social systems, adaptation, palaeoenvironmental and palaeocommunity analysis, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of particular approaches. 350p (Kluwer 2001) Hb £103.00 DNA and Genetics Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe edited by Colin Renfrew and Katie Boyle. Based on a meeting of the Human Genome Diversity Group held in Cambridge in 1999, these papers focus on recent developments in molecular genetics and their application to the prehistory and history of Europe. The papers describe the latest developments in this fast-moving area, with a clear and accessible discussion of the results of mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome analysis and of their integration with the archaeological and climatic record. 350p (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2000) Hb £38.00 A Devil’s Chaplain: Selected Essays by Richard Dawkins. A Devil’s Chaplain was a phrase first coined by Darwin, and one which appears in the first chapter in this collection of Richard Dawkins’ works. This montage of extracts from Dawkins’ articles, lectures, book reviews, forewords, tributes and eulogies, has been selected and arranged by Latha Meon, with Dawkins himself providing the preamble to each of the seven sections. ‘In attacking the pretensions of crystal gazers, homeopathists, creationists, relativists, obfuscators and cheats his is scimitarlike, lopping heads from narrow shoulders at a blow... a joy to read – Literary Review. 310p (Phoenix Pb 2003) Pb £7.99 Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution by Stephen Shennan. As biological information is passed through genes, so cultural information is passed through what Richard Dawkins has termed ‘memes’. In this theoretical but readable study, Shennan explores the potential for a neo-Darwinian evolutionary approach to some of the major concerns and issues within archaeology in recent times. Drawing on the work of Richard Dawkins as a stimulus, Shennan reviews the concept of memes as applied to animal behaviour and critiques their role in relation to human populations. Arguing that archaeologists are currently struggling with a lost past, this study reinforces what should be the prime concern of archaeology – to search for valid knowledge and to seek to make sense of long-term patterning and material culture. 304p, 47 b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2002) Hb £19.95 Genetic Variation and Human Disease by Kenneth M Weiss. Recent developments in molecular and statistical methods have made it possible to identify the genetic basis of any biological trait, giving rise to spectacular advances in the study of human disease. This book provides an overview of the concepts and methods needed to understand the genetic basis of biological traits in humans. 354p with textfigs (Cambridge UP 1993, 1995, 2nd edn 2000) Pb £24.99 The Journey of Man. A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells. ‘We are the end result of over a billion years of evolutionary tinkering’, but where did the evolutionary chain begin and how did we get to where we are now? Written by a geneticist and eminently readable, this book traces the journey of the human species through archaeology and developments in genetics. From Adam and Eve, to the San of the Kalahari, via Neanderthals and Native Americans, Spencer Wells uses the male Y-chromosome in particular to decipher the ‘family tree for the whole of humanity’. A thoroughly enjoyable read, now available in paperback. 224p, 10 b/w figs, 3 maps, 48 col pls (Penguin 2002, Pb 2003) Pb £8.99 Primates The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior by Craig B Stanford. Stanford presents insights into the question of human development through scientific evidence and studies of the behaviour of chimps and other great apes and argues that meat played an instrumental role in the development of humans. 253p, b/w pls (Princeton UP 1999, Pb 2001) Pb £12.95 9 The Molecule Hunt by Martin Jones. The search for the origins and identity of early humans has recently shifted from archaeological sites into the laboratory. Biomolecular traces, which survive in bones and on artefacts, also provide unparalleled information about the daily lives of ancient communities. This highly accessible study investigates the relationship between archaeology and genetic science and shows how the discovery of ancient DNA is dramatically transforming our understanding of the complex movement of people, the interaction of communities, the relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals, the settlement of America, the history of disease and past environments. 280p (Penguin 2001, Pb 2003) Pb £8.99 Reflections of Our Past: How Human History is Revealed Through Our Genes by John H Relethford. A number of recent publications have outlined, for a more general readership, how our genes can help us in reconstructing not only our recent genealogy, but how they can also contribute to debates on the origins of the human species. Reflections of Our Past follows this trend in assessing how anthropologists use genetic data to address and answer questions about human history. Relethford covers a range of popular debates on the origins of modern humans, the fate of the Neanderthals and the first Americans, as well as more personal research for example on the genetic make-up of Irish populations. A good, jargon-free account of an ever popular subject. 257p, b/w illus (Westview Press 2003) Hb £19.99 The Seven Daughters of Eve by Brian Sykes. This fascinating investigation into our genetic origins is based on the remarkable conclusion that virtually all 650 million modern Europeans are the direct descendants of only seven women. Sykes endeavours to bring to life these women, attempting to trace the movements of Europe’s tribes at the end of the last Ice Age. Sykes also discusses the wider implications of DNA analysis for the field of archaeology and for solving once and for all the debate surrounding the origins of the first Americans and the inhabitants of other continents. 306p, b/w figs (Bantam 2001, Pb 2002) Pb £6.99 What it Means to be 95% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and their Genes by Jonathan Marks. An ‘iconoclastic, witty and extremely readable’ study of how science can uncover the mysteries of the relationship between humans and animals, and how much we take for granted in terms of what genetics can tell us about the evolutionary development of the human species. Using the human-ape debate, Jonathan Marks explores various issues including racism, animal rights, and cloning, through an approach that lies somewhere between genetics and holistic anthropology – molecular anthropology. The paperback edition contains a new preface. 312p, 7 b/w illus (University of California 2002) Hb £26.95, Pb £11.95 Medial Mandibular Ramus: Ontogenetic, idiosyncratic, and geographic variation in recent Homo, great apes, and fossil hominids by Gary D Richards, Rebecca S Jabbour and John Y Anderson. This specialised and technical contribution to the debate surrounding the anatomical evolution of modern man and variations between Neanderthals and modern humans is based on the analysis of one specific jaw bone, the medial mandibular ramus, and its soft tissue attachments. Sections examine the range of samples available, the results of analysis and comparison, the morphological differences and evolutionary changes observed, the role of tendons and ligaments, and muscle function. Illustrated throughout with examples. 113p, b/w figs (BAR S1138, 2003) Pb £30.00 Palaeobiology II This volume includes a series of thematic articles on a diverse range of topics reflecting recent developments and new discoveries in the field. Subjects: Major events in the history of life; The evolutionary process and the fossil record; Taphonomy; Palaeoecology; Systematics, phylogeny and stratigraphy. The previous volume is now out of print. 608p, 278 b/w illus (Blackwell 2001) Hb £110.00, Pb £44.95 Paleodemography: Age distributions from skeletal examples edited by Robert D Hoppa and James W Vaupel. Twelve essays, based on workshops given at the Max-Planck Institute of Demographic Research (1999-2000), reflect different approaches by physical anthropologists, mathematical demographers and statisticians, to the methodological problems in attempting reconstructions of demographic patterns from archaeological (usually skeletal) data. They discuss age reconstructions, mortality models, links between biology and age, ancient population dynamics, age-at-death models and test new statistical techniques. Specialised and technical. 259p (Cambridge UP 2002) Hb £60.00 Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology by Clark Spencer Larsen. Focusing on ten thousand years of human history in the Americas, Larsen shows how archaeology, biological and socio-cultural anthropology can be combined with other scientific studies to elucidate changes in human biology relating to health and lifestyle and the identification of age, sex, race and appearance. Larsen explores what life was like for hunter-gatherers before discussing the poorer diet and harsher lifestyles of foragers and farmers. The second half examines the effects of European colonisation on both the native American population and the settlers. 248p, b/w figs (Princeton UP 2000, Pb 2002) Hb £32.95, Pb £13.95 Cognition Biology, Brains and Behaviour: The Evolution of Human Development edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer and Michael L McKinney. Ten theoretical studies look at the development of the brain and its implications in terms of cognition, language and behaviour. Contributors from the fields of biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, present comparative studies of human and nonhuman primate development, and of brain development. 386p, b/w figs, tbs (School of American Research, James Currey 2000) Hb £40.00, Pb £16.95 Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory edited by Steven Mithen. Fifteen contributions ask whether humans are the only species capable of creative thinking. Papers include: theory of mind, language and the disembodied mind of the upper Palaeolithic; innovation in the burial record of Mesolithic Europe; architecture, imagination and the Neolithic world; prehistoric Maltese art; assessing cognitive maps in later prehistoric Europe. 300p, b/w figs, illus (Routledge 1998) Hb £85.00 Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Metacognition edited by Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain. The evolution of the human mind is not a subject for the faint-hearted and, although a challenging read, this book provides a clear and thought-provoking study of the many different ideas and approaches found within the fields of archaeology, anthropology, philosophy and psychology. The 13 essays explore the modularity of the human mind, the development and significance of language, the evolution of the capacity for thought about thought, and much more. 331p (Cambridge UP 2000) Hb £47.50, Pb £18.99 The Prehistory of the Mind by Steve Mithen. It’s a rare day when you pick up a book which deals with such a heady subject as ‘cognitive archaeology’ only to find yourself engrossed and unable to put it down. This is a lucid, informative and entertaining book about the search for the origins of art, religion and science, and the development of linguistics and tool-making. 290p, 70 illus (Thames and Hudson 1996, Pb 1998, Phoenix Pb 2004) Pb £8.99 Palaeobiology and Anatomical Development Bones and the Man: Studies in Honour of Don Brothwell edited by Keith Dobney and Terry O’Connor. A volume of papers, from a conference held at York in 1999, presented in honour of the eminent archaeologist and palaeopathologist, Don Brothwell. The eclectic mix reflects the diversity of Brothwell’s career over four decades. The papers are linked together by the theme of ‘people’ – our evolution, our bodily remains and burial practices, and our behaviour with respect to other animals. Subjects include: Palaeopathology in the 21st Century; Dental Anthropology 30 Years On (Simon Hillson); Myopia and Nutritionally-inhibited Cranio-facial Growth (Mark Skinner); The Food Remains from the Colon of the Tyrolean Ice Man (Timothy Holden); Brain Pseudomorphs: Grey Matter, Grey Sediments, and Grey Literature (Sonia O’Connor); ‘Size Matters’ (Umberto Albarella); Animals as Food for the Soul (Roel Lauwerier); Was Bucephalus’ Burial for Real? Recent Finds of Horse Burials in King Philip’s Tomb at the Great Tumulus of Aigai, Greece (Theo Antikas, Laura Wynn-Antikas, and Thomas Alifakietis); Scales of Reference (Annie Grant); Animal Bones in Archaeology: How Archaeozoologists Can Make a Greater Contribution to British Iron Age and Romano-British Archaeology (Mark Maltby); The Rat Race (Anton Ervynck); Bones and the Man: Afterthoughts (Graeme Barker). 113p, 57 b/w figs and pls (Oxbow Books 2002) Hb £30.00 Human Paleobiology by Robert B Eckhardt. Eckhardt aims to show how palaeontologists reconstruct credible impressions of the lives of past populations from the study of fossilised skeletal remains and other evidence, such as tools, shelters and hearths. These skeletal and cultural remains trace the development of hominids from their earliest origins to the hunter-gatherers of our more recent archaeological past. Comparisons are made with other living species such as chimpanzees. 350p (Cambridge UP 2000) Hb £65.00 10 In the Mind’s Eye: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition edited by April Nowell. The last decade witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines such as cognitive ethnology and evolutionary psychology. This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size, cranial reorganisation and hominid cognition, and the role of language and information processing in human evolution. 200p, 31 b/w illus, 1 table (International Monographs in Prehistory Archaeological Series 13, 2001) Hb £56.00, Pb £30.00 Linguistic Development From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C Corballis. The premise of this study is that human language evolved from an elaborate sign system, developed from primate gestures, punctuated by grunts, and that vocal language emerged as late as about 50,000 years ago. In an accessible and humorous narrative, Corballis explains the origins of this argument, once popular and now controversial, and looks for supporting evidence from past ethnoarchaeological and anthropological studies and from studies of chimpanzee, gorilla and human gestures. Corballis also examines some fundamental questions about human evolution and language development, such as how do we physically differ from primates, why are our brains asymmetrical, why did humans walk upright, how did they spread across the world, and is signed language a true language? 257p, b/w figs (Princeton UP 2002, Pb 2003) Hb £26.95, Pb £11.95 The Seeds of Speech: Language, Origin and Evolution by Jean Aitchison. From grunts and snorts to modern eloquence – what were the stages in between? How and why did speech develop? These are the central issues tackled by Jean Aitchison in this general introduction to the origins and development of speech and how it spread across the world. 282p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 1996, Canto edn 2000) Pb £11.99 The Transition to Language edited by Alison Wray. How did language evolve? How did people communicate before the development of words and syntax? These are just some of the questions addressed in these eighteen papers taken from the third international conference on the evolution of language held in Paris in 2000. Contributors are taken from the fields of linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, psychology, biology, primatology and researchers in artificial intelligence. 410p, 66 b/w illus, 5 tbs (Oxford UP 2002) Hb £55.00, Pb £17.99 Archaeology and Language edited by Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks, yet this series of volumes explores a range of techniques developed by specialists in both fields. Vol I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations. Provides the indispensable background to the issues discussed in vols II-IV: the origin of language, the validity of deep-level reconstruction, the sociolinguistic modelling of prehistory and the use and value of oral tradition. 408p, 57 b/ w pls, 20 tbs, 15 figs (One World Archaeology 27, Routledge 1997) Hb £90.00 Vol II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses. A detailed discussion of subjects such as the origins of agriculture and prehistoric migrations, using the theory that where archaeological sequences are reasonably well-known, they might be tied into evidence of language diversification and thus produce absolute chronologies. 456p, 69 line figs (One World Archaeology 29, Routledge 1998) Hb £90.00 Vol III: Symbolic Species: Artefacts, Languages and Texts. This study seeks to interpret patterns from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools for a radical re-writing of the conventional discourse of prehistory. Individual chapters include case studies of artefacts and textual material concerned with the reconstruction of houseforms, maritime technology, pottery and grave goods. 304p, 7 maps, 26 illus, 8 b/w pls (One World Archaeology 34, Routledge 1999) Hb £90.00 Vol IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation. Examining a variety of issues regarding linguistic and cultural change, this volume presents case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to provide a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology. 256p, 29 illus, 8 b/w pls (One World Archaeology 35, Routledge 1999) Hb £90.00 Languages in Prehistoric Europe by edited by Alfred Bammesberger and Theo Vennemann. Before the advent of writing and before the development of the Indo-European language, Europe enjoyed much greater linguistic diversity with a whole host of other now defunct languages (Hispanic, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, to name but a few). These nineteen papers from a conference held at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt in Germany in 1999, examine this diversity from archaeological (two papers) and linguistic perspectives. Papers in English and German. 364p (Universitätsverlag Winter 2003) Hb £42.00 The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology edited by Aharon Dologopolsky. Do all or most languages in the world descend from a single proto-language? The theory of a Nostratic protolanguage is not new, but the extremely detailed presentation of historical linguistic evidence provided here is. The lists of possible linguistic roots are not for the faint-hearted, but for serious linguists they provide food for thought. 116p (McDonald Institute 1998) Pb £20.00 Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily edited by Colin Renfrew and Daniel Nettle. Aharon Dologopolsky’s The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology was a landmark in linguistic archaeology. The contributors to this volume enter into the debate with papers on linguistic palaeontology, the relationships between Nostratic languages, methodologies, and perspectives on the debate. 164p (McDonald Institute 1999) Pb £30.00 Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis edited by Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew. Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind. Why are there some six thousand different languages spoken in the world today? Why are some spoken by millions over vast territories, while others are restricted to just a few thousand speakers? The farming/language dispersal hypothesis makes the radical and controversial proposal that the present-day distributions of many of the world’s languages and language families can be traced back to the early developments and dispersals of farming from the several nuclear areas where animal and plant domestication emerged. For instance, the Indo-European and Austronesian language families may owe their current vast distributions to the spread of food plants and of farmers following the Neolithic revolutions which took place in the Near East and in Eastern Asia respectively, thousands of years ago. In this challenging book, experts in historical linguistics, prehistoric archaeology, molecular genetics and human ecology focus on this intractable problem. 520p, 88 figs, 21 tables (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2002) Hb £50.00 Time Depth in Historical Linguistics edited by Colin Renfrew, April McMahon and Larry Trask. Time depth constitutes one of the most difficult and controversial aspects of historical linguistics. This collection, based on a meeting held at the McDonald Institute in 1999, discusses, for example, such techniques as glottochronology and lexicostatistics, linguistic palaeontology, convergence processes and morphological approaches. 2 vols, 681p, many illus and tbs (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2000) Pb £50.00 Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution by K R Gibson and T Ingold. 19 essays question how humans have evolved into users of complex tools with complicated communication systems and forms of social life, including contributions from N Toth and K Schick (Early stone industries); I Davidson and W Noble (Tools and language in human evolution); and T Ingold (Tool-use, sociality and intelligence). 483p with figs (Cambridge UP 1993, Pb 1995) Pb £32.00 Human Evolution Evolution by Mark Ridley. This is a good undergraduate introduction to the world of evolution, now in its third edition. Encompassing a broad range of topics, from the history of the discipline to the most up-to-date theories, it has now been updated, enlarged by an additional two chapters, and includes new features such as study and review questions and references to relevant websites. 751p, b/w illus (Blackwell 1993, 3rd edn 2004) Pb £27.50 Principles of Human Evolution by Roger Lewin and Robert A Foley. This second edition of Lewin’s guide for students studying human evolution has been completely restructured to make it more accessible and easier to use and it now has a co-author, Robert Foley. The text has also been supplemented by ‘Key questions’ designed to test the reader. Arranged chronologically, the well-illustrated chapters take the student through the stages of hominin evolution, discussing in detail particular hominins, developments in behaviour and morphology, environment, the archaeology of evolution, and the evidence. 555p, many b/ w illus and figs (Blackwell 1998, 2nd edn 2004) Pb £29.99 11 Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man’s Adaptations by Bernard Campbell. In this fourth edition Campbell has revised and updated his classic introduction to the fields, which synthesises the major findings of modern research and theory and presents a complete and integrated account of the evolution of human beings. Recent developments in microbiology and recent fossil records are incorporated into the enormous range of this volume. The result is a primary text for undergraduates and graduates, serving also as required reading for anthropologists, biologists and non-specialists with an interest in human evolution. 523p, 17 pls (de Gruyter, 4th edn 1999) Hb £58.95, Pb £32.00 Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Schwartz. This well-illustrated volume argues that different species of humans have coexisted throughout hominid history and that, like other animal species, related human species directly or indirectly competed against one another leading to specialisation and extinction. The book compares hominids living around the world before tracing the migration of Homo sapiens out of Africa and examining the effect on Neanderthals of competition with these modern humans. 256p, many col and b/w pls and illus (Westview 2000) Pb £26.99 Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon. The dominant theme of this book is bipedalism, or walking upright on two feet, how this came about and what consequences it had for mankind. Written by a zoological artist, an authority on Africa’s mammals, an ecologist and writer, this study argues that there are many ways in which the subject could and should be approached. Arguing not only that bipedalism was a relatively inefficient response to environmental circumstances, Kingdon also stresses that it would be wrong to perceive standing as the single point at which man became different from apes. Walking upright, Kingdon believes, was but one of a series of evolutionary and adaptive changes in the history of man. 396p, b/w illus, 2 tbs (Princeton UP 2003) Hb £22.95 Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and intelligence in human evolution by Alison Jolly. Written by a world renowned primatologist, this study combines evolutionary and bio-behavioural study with the author’s research on the ringtailed lemurs of Madagascar. She places emphasis on social intelligence: sex, cooperation and love in the process of human development. ‘If you want to know how you became the most intelligent and sexiest creature on Earth, this is the book for you’ comments Lucy’s finder, Don Johanson. 518p, b/w figs (Harvard UP 1999) Hb £20.95, Pb £12.95 Humans Before Humanity by Robert Foley. When did we become human? Why is Africa so central in our evolutionary history? Foley argues that the answers to these questions lie in the specific contexts and circumstances in which ancient populations of apes found themselves; that the monumental outcome of evolution was the product of the local and the small scale. Clearly and convincingly argued. 248p, illus (Blackwell 1995, Pb 1997) Pb £16.99 Applying Evolutionary Archaeology by Michael J O’Brien and R Lee Lyman. An introduction to the methods, techniques and principles which are required to understand the archaeological record in Darwinian evolutionary terms. The book presents the similarities between archaeology and palaeobiology and argues that non-organic artefacts reveal as much about evolution and early cultures as their physical and environmental remains. The authors endeavour to present complex debates as clearly as possible in order to involve readers with a general interest in evolutionary archaeology. A thorough and highly detailed investigation that concludes with a glossary and full bibliography. 471p, b/w figs (Kluwer/ Plenum 2000) Hb £95.00, Pb £38.00 Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness by Ian Tattersall. Ian Tattersall searches for the discontinuities in our evolution in a bid to discover what it is that sets us apart from our ancestors. Written for the general reader with little specialist knowledge of the subject, this is a good, albeit rather dogmatic, general introduction to this puzzling and problematic issue. 258p (Oxford UP 1998, Pb 2000) Hb £9.99, Pb £7.99 Early Human Behaviour in Global Context edited by Michael Petraglia and Ravi Korisettar. While Upper Palaeolithic research has advanced in huge bounds in recent years, knowledge of the more ephemeral traces of the Lower Palaeolithic has moved more slowly. The fifteen papers in this book, including those by Michael D Petraglia, Günther A Wagner, Ravi Korisettar, Ofer Bar-Yosef, J Desmond Clark, and Clive Gamble, use evidence from stone tool analysis, settlement patterns and environmental remains to shed new light on the thoughts and practices of our most distant ancestors. 512p (One World Archaeology 28, Routledge 1998) Hb £110.00 Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture by Wiktor Stoczkowski. Stoczkowski argues that a review of theories on human origins from the early 19th century to the present day shows that modern popular theories are ‘structurally similar’. His discussion studies the ideas of anthropologists, archaeologists and naturalists (including Darwin, Rousseau, Sahlins, Voltaire, Engels and Cartailhac) and compares these to modern theories. 234p, 7 tbs (Cambridge UP 2002) Hb £45.00, Pb £15.99 God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology in South Asia by Kenneth A R Kennedy. The aim of this scholarly work is to reassess the traditional theories that surround the discoveries of skeletal and archaeological remains in South Asia, made during the last 200 years. Kennedy integrates archaeological data from prehistoric sites with palaeoecological, palaeobiological and anthropological research to trace the origin and development of early human populations in South Asia and their contacts with other cultures in Asia and the Near East. Chapters also examine lithic technology, megalithic monuments, European hypotheses and possible reasons for linguistic similarities between the languages of northern India, western Asia and Europe. 480p, 50 b/w figs (University of Michigan 2000) Hb £53.00 Human Roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene edited by Lawrence Barham and Kate Robson-Brown. Sixteen papers taken from a meeting held in Bristol in 2000 that focused on the question of the difference between humans and behaviour in Africa and the Far East during the Middle Pleistocene’? The contributors draw on evidence from recent archaeological fieldwork and represent different schools of thought concerning the Out-of-Africa or Multi-Regional origins of man. Among the regions or countries discussed are southern, central and eastern Africa, China, the Yangtze River, Australasia and India. 263p, b/w figs (Western Academic and Specialist Press 2001) Hb £35.00 A Morphometric Investigation into the Origin(s) of Anatomically Modern Humans by Phillip J Habgood. Drawing on archaeological and skeletal evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Western Asia, Europe, Australasia and East Asia in turn, this revised thesis compares anatomical evidence across continents to determine the location of modern man’s origins and so contribute to the great ‘Replacement vs. Multiregional’ origins debate. The study argues that the evidence indicates two centres of origin, in Africa and Western Asia and in Australasia and East Asia but there would have been genetic interflows between the two. This is largely a technical study, combining morphometric study of hominids from numerous sites with the presentation and assessment of claims made by palaeontologists and archaeologists over the last fifty years. 313p, 16 b/w pls, b/w figs (BAR S1176, 2003) Pb £50.00 Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution by Haim Ofek. In what is sure to be a controversial book, Ofek appeals to economic theory to discuss some of the outstanding issues in human evolution, such as the increase in human brain size, the domestication of fire, the sudden refinement of stone tool production in the Upper Palaeolithic period, and the Neolithic development of agriculture. Throughout the book Ofek argues that humans were naturally endowed with skills of trade – the ability and desire to exchange one thing for another – and that this predisposition to trade was necessary for humans to evolve. 254p, b/w figs (Cambridge UP 2001) Hb £60.00, Pb £20.99 Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour by Kevin N Laland and Gillian R Brown. Homicide, religion, men from Mars and women from Venus? – can these aspects of humanity be explained as a result of nature or culture, or a bit of both? Researchers often disagree about the best ways to use the principles of evolution to explore and explain human behaviour, and even disagree whether it is legitimate to try at all. The authors of this book hope to provide a guide to evolutionary theory for students of humanity, leading you through the maze by outlining five evolutionary approaches that are currently being used to investigate human behaviour: sociobiology, human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology, memetics, and gene-culture coevolution. 369p, tbs (Oxford UP 2002) Hb £18.99 The Speciation of Modern Homo Sapiens by T J Crow. These thirteen specialised papers, from a meeting held in 2000 under the auspices of The British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences, add to the debate on man’s origins. Scholars from the fields of palaeontology, archaeology, linguistics, psychology, genetics and evolutionary theory discuss speciation theory and outline the specific transitions in hominid evolution that led to the emergence of modern man. 265p, b/w figs, tbs (Oxford UP for The British Academy 2002, Pb 2004) Pb £17.99 12 Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization by Clive Gamble. Human evolution tends to be understood in terms of a development from inferior to superior, primitive to advanced, the simple to the complex. In this book Gamble attempts to dispel some of the myths and distortions that this way of perceiving the human past has produced. He looks at human prehistory and behaviour through a detailed study of global colonisation and adaptation to climate and environment, and seeks to introduce a fresh approach to the causes behind this dispersal of humans. In the course of his study he presents the latest findings of prehistoric archaeology, and a critique of the attitudes of early European explorers and twentieth-century scholars to the question of human origins. 309p with figs and illus (Sutton 1993, Pb 2003) Pb £12.99 Neanderthals The Mousterian in Mediterranean France: A regional, integrative and comparative perspective by Carolyn Szmidt. Based on the author’s thesis, this study analyses Neanderthal behaviour patterns in both a chronological and spatial sense, in Mediterranean France. Methdological issues of how to compare assemblages from the 79 Mousterian sites examined, how to assess variability in lithic and faunal assemblages and how to interpret patterns of behaviour are considered. The archaeological data from this area, dating from 35,000 to 118,000 years ago, is also compared to south-west France where significant differences are noted. 305p, tbs (BAR S1147, 2003) Pb £42.00 Neanderthals and Modern Humans – Discussing the Transition: Central and Eastern Europe from 50.000-30.000 BP edited by Jörg Orscheidt and Gerd-C Weniger. This collection of 28 papers, from a workshop held in March 1999 at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany, moves the focus on the transition period between Neanderthals and modern humans away from western and southern Europe to central and eastern Europe. The papers examine archaeological evidence from sites across the region, including sites in Bavaria, Poland, the Levant, the Balkans, Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine, and discuss the affects of the region’s geography and short-term climatic fluctuations on populations. 322p, b/w figs, tbs (Neanderthal Museum 2000) Pb £35.50 Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the European Landscape during the Last Glaciation: Archaeological results of the Stage 3 Project edited by Tjeerd H van Andel and William Davies. What role did Ice Age climate play in the demise of the Neanderthals, and why was it that modern humans alone survived? For the past seven years a team of international experts from a wide range of disciplines have worked together to provide a detailed study of the world occupied by the European Neanderthals between 60,000 and 25,000 years ago: the period known as Oxygen Isotope Stage 3. These papers document the extensive environmental research conducted by the Stage 3 Project. Its new chronological and archaeological database sets the Neanderthal and modern human sites in a continent-wide framework of space and time. A mammalian data base maps the ecology and fauna of the period, providing fresh insights into the availability of plant and animal foods in different parts of the European landscape as Ice Age climate changed and fluctuated. 84p, b/w illus, 20 col illus (McDonald Institute Monograph 2004) Hb £35.00 The Neanderthal’s Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers by Juan Luis Arsuaga. This is another book within the genre of ‘What are we doing here?’, this time approached from a jargon-free palaeoanthropological perspective. Juan Luis Arsuaga traces the early years of human evolution and expansion, assessing how and why change took place and looking in particular at the Neanderthals. Throughout the author places human evolution alongside developments in the natural world and searches for evidence linked to human consciousness, language and the use of symbols and tools which, he argues, were major factors in ensuring the survival of our ancestors. 338p (John Wiley & Sons 2003) Hb £16.99 Neanderthals in the Levant: Behavorial Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity edited by Donald O Henry. This contribution to the debate surrounding the ‘bio-cultural’ relationships between Neanderthals and modern humans focuses on evidence from the rockshelter Tor Faraj in Jordan which was occupied 70,000 to 44,000 years ago. Using evidence recovered from stratified Middle Palaeolithic living floors, the essays evaluate theories surrounding the ways in which Neanderthals organised their behaviour, making comparisons throughout with the earliest groups of modern humans in the Levant. These ten essays mostly comprise detailed and often technical analyses and reconstructions of the lithic and microbotanical evidence, but three synthetic studies review evidence from Tor Faraj and current trends in the ongoing debate. 320p, b/w illus, tbs (Continuum 2003) Hb £120.00 Portrait of the Artist as a Child: The Gravettian Human Skeleton from Abrigo do Lagar Velho and its Archaeological Context edited by Joao Zilhao and Erik Trinkaus. The remains of an ochre-stained child found in rockshelter deposits in the Lapedo Valley of southern Portugal has created much debate over the nature of the valley’s inhabitants over 25 millennia ago. This report describes the discovery and the subsequent investigation of the site, including archaeological and palaeontological studies, and an analysis of the skeletal remains. Despite the lack of cultural correlates, the authors conclude that the child is an example of inter-breeding between local Neanderthal populations and an early modern human population. The context and nature of the burial and the broader impact of the results on human cultural evolution and behaviour are also discussed. 609p, b/w and col illus (Trabalhos de Arqueologia 22, IPA 2002) Pb £35.00 Hunter-Gatherers Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets by Lewis R Binford. A deeply theoretical book that is the ‘culmination of Binford’s intellectual legacy’ on the study of hunter-gatherers around the world. Taking almost 340 case studies, he explores the variability found within different hunter-gatherer groups and the various environmental and demographic conditions under which variability emerges. This large volume includes a review of what is already known as well as a discussion of the procedures and methods that Binford advocates in studying these groups, and more complex theoretical ideas, observations and reasoning on the subject. 563p, many b/w figs and tbs (University of California 2001) Hb £49.95 Desolate Landscapes: Ice Age Settlement in Eastern Europe by John F Hoffecker. The ability of modern humans to colonise the regions of northern Eurasia, something which Neanderthals had failed to do, was a major step forward in the evolutionary development of man. Attributed to a behavioural transformation, the ability to develop new technologies and organisational skills meant that they were able to adapt to harsher, colder environments. This authoritative study which collates and discusses much Russian research, presents an overview of the Pleistocene in eastern Europe within the context of human evolution. John Hoffecker assesses the success of modern humans, explains how this success was achieved and outlines the evidence that supports his argument. A useful and much needed synthesis of human development in Eastern Europe. 298p, b/w figs, tbs (Rutgers UP 2002) Pb £25.95 Ethnoarchaeology and Hunter-Gatherers: Pictures at an Exhibition edited by K J Fewster and M Zvelebil. Thirteen papers, from a conference held by the Prehistoric Society in Sheffield in 1999, look at the the MesolithicNeolithic transition and the ethnoarchaeology of hunter-gatherers. The result is a diverse set of papers which are broadly grouped around issues of space, social change and material culture, with case studies taken from Britain, Siberia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, Papua New Guinea and America. 157p, b/w figs (Archaeopress BAR S955, 2001) Pb £28.00 The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological Evidence from the North Pacific by Ben Fitzhugh. When the Russians ventured to the North Pacific coast of Alaska in the 18th century, they encountered a group of hunter-gatherers, that also had complex socio-political systems, were sedentary, densely populated and highly militaristic. Here, Fitzhugh examines the processes by which the inhabitants of the south-east region of the Kodiak archipelago evolved from a low density group with relative mobility and an egalitarian structure, to the type of society encountered at the point of Russian contact. Fitzhugh analyses the settlement patterns and density, demographics, site function and variability of the Kodiak group and suggests factors that may have contributed to or caused their socio-political, technological, economic and demographic evolution over a 7000-year period. 332p, b/w illus, tbs (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology Series, Kluwer/Plenum 2003) Hb £101.50, Pb £44.50 Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany: Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone edited by Sarah L R Mason and Jon G Hather. Hunter-gatherers’ relationship with and reliance on plants has traditionally been studied within the remit of domestication and agrarian change, however, these 16 papers take a more wide-ranging approach to archaeobotany. Studying hunter-gatherers from the Upper Palaeolithic to fairly recent times, across the northern hemisphere (including Japan, America, Europe and the Near East), they reflect different methodological and technical approaches to the manipulation and modification of wild plants and the environment. 196p, many b/w illus, tbs (Institute of Archaeology, UCL 2002) Pb £35.00 13 Hunter-Gatherers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective edited by Catherine Panter-Brick, Robert H Layton and Peter Rowley-Conwy. An excellent new inter-disciplinary study of the ways in which we perceive, categorise, understand and interpret the lives and behaviour of hunter-gatherers. Reflecting current debate within archaeology, social and biological anthropology, the eleven chapters look at aspects of evolution and history, demography, biology, technology, social organisation, subsistence and nutrition, art, language and creativity. 341p (Cambridge 2001) Hb £50.00, Pb £19.99 Le rôle de l’environnement dans les comportements des chasseurscueilleurs préhistoriques edited by Marylène Patou-Mathis and Hervé Bocherens. This collection of seveteen papers, in French and English, forms the Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liége in 2001. The contributors discuss the role of the environment and the accessibility of resources on huntergatherer diet choices and changes through time. Reconstructions of palaeoecology, faunal species and human behavioural patterns are presented with case studies from Poland, France, Belgium, Croatia, Italy and Israel. 179p, b/w figs, tbs (Archaeopress BAR S1105, 2003) Pb £32.00 Lithics Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools by John C Whittaker. A fourth reprinting of the most detailed and extensive handbook on flintknapping currently available. Written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them, Whittaker offers detailed, practical information, starting at the beginner level and progressing to discussion of a wide range of techniques. He includes information on necessary tools and materials, as well as step-bystep instructions for making several basic stone tool types, all supported by clear diagrams and illustrations. He concludes by looking at how stone could be used. and the archaeological potential of stone tool analysis. 341p with figs & illus. (Texas UP 1994, 4th Pb rep 1999) Pb £20.95 Lithics by William Andrefsky. An accessible manual on stone artefact analysis directed at students and professional archaeologists. Classification, terminology, materials, concepts and analytical techniques are examined and explained; the final section is made up of global case studies. 300p, 36 tbs, 101 figs (Cambridge UP 1998) Pb £20.99 Lithic Analysis by George H Odell. There is no substitute for learning in the field, ‘hands on’, but acquiring knowledge and skills in this way can be a long and labourintensive process on behalf of the teacher and those seeking to learn from them. This is a ‘how to’ book with regard to lithic analysis which should complement learning from experts in the field. The guide reviews the history of stone tool research before discussing in more detail the issues of stone procurement, production and function, assemblage variability, tool production and prehistoric behaviour. The book assumes some knowledge of archaeology and is problem-oriented in asking and then explaining how to go about answering particular questions. With case studies, diagrams and text boxes to describe things in more detail, this is an analytical and not unreadable study. 262p, b/w figs, tbs (Kluwer 2004) Hb £60.00, Pb £26.00 Lithic Analysis at the Millennium by Norah Moloney and Michael J Shott. This collection of papers on the analysis and interpretation of lithic assemblages steers away from traditional typologies to present new ideas and approaches to studying assemblages from various periods and parts of the world, although inevitably with a European and Palaeolithic bent. The sixteen papers include interpretations of variability in assemblages, discussions of technology, procurement and mobility, as well as the analysis of aspects such as refitting, recycling, use-wear and dating. Case studies are taken from South Africa, Lebanon, Europe, North America and Egypt. The papers were originally given at a conference held at the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1998. 213p, many b/w illus, tbs (Institute of Archaeology, London 2003) Pb £29.50 Lithic Debitage: Context, Form and Meaning edited by William Andrefsky Jr. This collection of 12 essays originated in a symposium at the Society for American Archaeology conference held in Chicago in 1999. Together they challenge some of the basic assumptions about lithic debitage and highlight the complexities of studying the subject. The aim of the essays is to explore the sources and origins of debitage variability, to look at historical perspectives of analysis, to examine archaeological contexts and to present alternative perspectives and new approaches to the study of debitage. 266p, b/w figs, tbs (University of Utah 2001, Pb 2003) Hb £39.95, Pb £12.50 Written in Stone: The Multiple Dimensions of Lithic Analysis edited by P Nikck Kardulias and Richard W Yerkes. Lithic analysis has for many years been a vital tool in developing our understanding of prehistoric societies and methods of analysis have greatly improved in recent times. This collection of papers comes from a session held at the 1997 AIA meeting in Chicago, and presents a series of case studies on the link between lithics and exchange as a means to understanding various political economies. Among the analyses discussed are microwear studies, provenancing, refitting and chemical analysis. Case studies are taken from North America, the central and western Mediterranean, the Sinai Desert, Greece, northern Europe and southern Iran. 143p, b/w figs, tbs (Lexington Books 2003) Hb £42.00 Lithic Raw Material Economies in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe edited by Lynn E Fisher and Berit Valentin Eriksen. These twelve papers, some of which were given at the 59th Annual SAA meeting in Arnheim in 1994 (here revised) present comparative lithic material from across Europe. With case studies from Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal, the contributors look at the procurement of lithic raw materials, mobility patterns, territorial organisation, inter-group communication and exploitation of natural resources. 179p, b/w figs, tbs (Archaeopress BAR S1093, 2002) Pb £34.00 Compresseurs, Percuteurs, Retouchoirs edited by Marylène Patou-Mathis. A detailed and technical study of the bone industry in the middle Palaeolithic taking case studies from across France and one assemblage of material from the Czech Republic. The ten essays look at the different types of tools or objects produced from the bones of different animals and analyse the wear patterns, form, morphology and probable use of the instruments. 136p, b/w figs and pls (Éditions Société Préhistorique Française 2002) Pb £18.50 Discoid Lithic Technology: Advances and Implications edited by Marco Peresani. The recognition and concomitant study of discoid flaking procedures in Early and Middle European Palaeolithic lithic assemblages, is at a very early stage. This volume contains fifteen studies which present new data and research from sites in France, Spain, Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The contributors seek to add clarity to the definition of this flaking method and to study variability in technomorphological features, and in the use and procurement of raw materials. Papers in French and English; abstracts in English, French and Italian. 275p, b/w illus (Archaeopress BAR S1120, 2003) Pb £35.00 The Humanized Mineral World: Towards social and symbolic evaluation of prehistoric technologies in South Eastern Europe edited by Tsoni Tsonev and Emmanuela Montagnari Kokelj. These nineteen contributions form the published proceedings of the European Science Foundation workshop held in Sofia in 2003. The authors of the papers examine a range of issues concerned with the exploitation of raw materials in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, as well as methods of analysing lithic technologies and their use. 137p, b/w figs (ERAUL 103, 2003) Pb £20.00 Hunter-Gatherer Specialised Subsistence Strategies in Greece during the Upper Palaeolithic from the Perspective of Lithic Technology by Paraskevi Elefanti. In addressing the question of whether economically specialised sites had specialised lithic technologies, Elefanti draws on evidence from three broadly contemporary sites in north-west and southern Greece. Defining Klithi as a seasonally-occupied and possibly specialised site and Kastrista and Franchthi as sites with access to a diverse range of resources and more favourable conditions for long-term occupation, lithic evidence from the three is reassessed and compared. The theoretical and methodological premises of the research are clearly laid out and Elefanti concludes by stating that either Klithi is not truly representative of a specialised site, or there are no discernible differences in lithic technology between the two site types. 135p, many b/w figs and tbs (BAR S1130, 2003) Pb £39.00 Beyond Tools. Redefining the PPN lithic assemblages of the Levant edited by Isabella Caneva, Cristina Lemorini, Daniela Zampetti and Paolo Biagi. A collection of 33 papers that form the Proceedings of the Third Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithic Industries in the Levant held in Venice in 1998. The workshop provided a forum for the discussion of ideas and placed emphasis on the technological rather than typological aspects of lithic assemblages with sections exploring technology and documentation, functional interpretation of tools and contexts, and classification and chronology. 455p, b/w figs, tbs (Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 9, Ex Oriente 2001) Pb £64.50 14