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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

    $12.99 USD

  • Prehistoric Europe

    by Timothy Champion, Clive Gamble, Stephen Shennan, Alasdair Whittle ...
    The study of European prehistory has been revolutionized in recent years by the rapid growth rate of archeological discovery, advances in dating methods and the application of scientific techniques to archaeological material and new archaeological aims and frameworks of interpretation. Whereas previous work concentrated on the recovery and description of material remains, the main focus is now on ... Read more

    $73.99 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 Origins of the Irish

    by J. P. Mallory ...
    An essential new history of ancient Ireland and the Irish, written as an engrossing detective storyAbout eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves come from and what do we even mean by “Irish” in the first place?This is the first major attempt to deal with the core issues of how the Irish came into ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pottery in Archaeology

    by Clive Orton, Michael Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology
    This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available to the archaeologist, and assesses their value for answering a range of archaeological questions. It provides a manual for the basic handling and archiving of ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond

    by Tom Moore, Elizabeth Moore ...
    The nature and causes of the transformation in settlement, social structure, and material culture that occurred in Britain during the Later Iron Age (c. 400-300 BC to the Roman conquest) have long been a focus of research. In the past, however, there was a tendency for attention to be directed mostly to southern England and the increased manifestations of Gaulish and Roman influence apparent there ... Read more

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