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Catching Fire
Profile 2009; US$ 20.41In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow,... more...
New Perspectives on Old Stones
Springer 2010; US$ 64.99As the study of Palaeolithic technologies moves towards a more analytical approach, it is necessary to determine a consistent procedural framework. The contributions to this timely and comprehensive volume do just that. This volume incorporates a broad chronological and geographical range of Palaeolithic material from the Lower to Upper Palaeolithic.... more...
The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Yaaqov Volume III
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99Multidisciplinary research on the Early-Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov has yielded abundant climatic, environmental, ecological and behavioral records. The 15 archaeological horizons form a sequence of Acheulian occupational episodes on the shore of the paleo-Lake Hula. These enable us to reconstruct numerous aspects of the survival... more...
Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 120.00The papers in this volume derive from the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean (Malta, 1985). The field remains divided between the view supporting the existence of a universal belief in an all-pervading and all-embracing Mother Goddess ? of which the fertility cult is just one, albeit important, aspect ? and the... more...
Altsteinzeit von A-Z
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 71.62Hauptbeschreibung Das "Lexikon der Altsteinzeit" richtet sich an Studierende und Fachleute, die in unterschiedlicher Weise mit der Entwicklung des Menschen und seiner Kultur Berührungspunkte finden, sowie an alle diejenigen, die ein näheres Interesse an der Altsteinzeit haben. Es soll eine Hilfe dafür sein, sich abseits der Flut von Informationen... more...
The Archaeology of People
Routledge 2003; US$ 39.95Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate. more...
European Iron Age
Routledge 1984; US$ 52.95Dr Collis takes a new look at such key concepts as population movement, diffusion, trade, social structure and spatial organization, with some challenging new vews on the Celts in particular. more...
Oldeholtwolde
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 169.95This documented and illustrated book focuses on the examination of the 10,000 flint artefacts discovered at the well-preserved archaeological site at Oldeholtwolde in the Netherlands. more...
Lithics
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 45.00The new edition details key advances in the field related to lithic debitage analysis and lithic tool analysis since publication of the first edition in 1998. It includes new sections on stone tool functional studies, microdebitage analysis and minimal analytical nodule analysis. more...
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00A rich overview of Bronze Age societies of western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record. more...









