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“april nowell”

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  • Growing Up in the Ice Age

    Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children

    by April Nowell ...
    In prehistoric societies children comprised 40–65% of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools, and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children, and adolescents around them.Growing Up in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archaeology of the Night

    Life After Dark in the Ancient World

    Edited by Nancy Gonlin, April Nowell ...
    How did ancient peoples experience, view, and portray the night? What was it like to live in the past when total nocturnal darkness was the norm? Archaeology of the Night explores the archaeology, anthropology, mythology, iconography, and epigraphy of nocturnal practices and questions the dominant models of daily ancient life. A diverse team of experienced scholars uses a variety of methods and ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Culturing the Body

    Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

    Edited by April Nowell, Benjamin Collins ...
    The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Making Scenes

    Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art

    Edited by Iain Davidson, April Nowell ...
    Dating back to at least 50,000 years ago, rock art is one of the oldest forms of human symbolic expression. Geographically, it spans all the continents on Earth. Scenes are common in some rock art, and recent work suggests that there are some hints of expression that looks like some of the conventions of western scenic art. In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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    Humans and Animals in Prehistory

    by Nerissa Russell ...
    This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played many more roles in human societies: as wealth ... Read more

    $63.19 USD

  • Transylvanian Dinosaurs

    by David B Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu ...
    The history and science of a cluster of dinosaurs found in the Hungarian region and the story of the aristocrat who discovered them.At the end of the time of the dinosaurs, Transylvania was an island in what was to become southeastern Europe. The island's limited resources affected the size and life histories of its animals, resulting in a local dwarfism. For example, sauropods found on the island ... Read more

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  • Prehistoric Rock Art

    Polemics and Progress

    by Paul G. Bahn ...
    Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. Bahn focuses in particular on current issues in the interpretation of rock art, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Modern Humans

    Their African Origin and Global Dispersal

    by John Hoffecker ...
    Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than half a million years ago and their later spread throughout the world. Leaving no stone unturned, John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a “major transition” in the evolution of living ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Not Just for Show

    The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments

    Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Alice M. Choyke ...
    Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical ... Read more

    $34.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stone Tools in Human Evolution

    Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates

    by John J. Shea ...
    In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that seen among living non-human primates, to a uniquely human pattern of obligatory tool use. Examining how the lithic archaeological record changed over the course of human evolution, he compares tool use by living humans and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art

    by Paul Bahn, Michel Lorblanchet ...
    Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new researchWhere is the world’s very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms, and colors? Prehistorians have long been asking these questions, but only recently ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Sacred Darkness

    A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves

    Edited by Holley Moyes ...
    Caves have been used in various ways across human society, but despite the persistence within popular culture of the iconic caveman, deep caves were never used primarily as habitation sites for early humans. Rather, in both ancient and contemporary contexts, caves have served primarily as ritual spaces. In Sacred Darkness, contributors use archaeological evidence as well as ethnographic studies of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD