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The Earliest Europeans - A Year in the Life - Robert Hosfield

The Earliest Europeans - A Year in the Life

Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic

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Buch | Softcover
416 Seiten
2020
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-761-2 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’, moving through the seasons to see what the evidence for early man in the Lower Palaeolithic tells us about how they survived, their behaviour, what resources were available to them, using the latest research techniques.
The Earliest Europeans explores a fundamental question: how did Europe’s first hominin occupants cope with the year-round practical challenges of life. To do so, the book adopts a ‘year in the life’ perspective that draws on the increasingly rich and robust archaeological and Quaternary Science records for the European Lower Palaeolithic, combined with insights from modern ethnography and zoological studies. By exploring potential survival strategies and behaviours, Hosfield offers new insights into the character of Europe’s earliest occupations across more than 1 million years, and ultimately asks: what sorts of ‘humans’ were these hominins?

The innovative season-by-season structure of the book explores cyclical fluctuations in resources and weather conditions. From the depths of cold winters to the bountiful foods of late summer, it considers the implications of these variations for hominin behaviours. Hosfield draws on a range of supporting examples and evidence from Lower Palaeolithic sites across Europe, spanning technology, palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, hominin life history, and plant and animal food resources. In doing so, The Earliest Europeans highlights both the current and future potential of Europe’s earliest archaeological record.

Rob Hosfield is Associate Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading. His recent research has concentrated on global patterns in early Palaeolithic technology and the challenges of Palaeolithic survival in mid-latitudes. His publications include Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution: Landscapes in Mind (co-edited, 2015), and Quaternary History and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Axe Valley at Broom, South West England (co-authored and co-edited, 2013).

Erscheinungsdatum
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Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
ISBN-10 1-78570-761-2 / 1785707612
ISBN-13 978-1-78570-761-2 / 9781785707612
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