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From Tools to Symbols: From Early Hominids to Modern Humans
Francesco D´errico
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Description for From Tools to Symbols: From Early Hominids to Modern Humans
Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1032.
A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a ... Read more
A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
606
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868144174
SKU
V9781868144174
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99-15
About Francesco D´errico
Francesco d’Errico is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi que (CNRS) and Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology, George Washington University. Francesco d’Errico is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi que (CNRS) and Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology, George Washington University. Lucinda Backwell is a Researcher in ... Read more
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