Human Evolution and Prehistory
by Haviland, William A.Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-19
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
This book offers a comprehensive and balanced presentation on views of the human evolution and prehistory. It focuses on selected aspects of physical anthropology and prehistoric archaeology as they relate to the origin of humanity, the origin of culture, and the development of human biological and cultural diversity. Haviland's commitment to challenging student ethnocentrism is continued and reinforced in this new edition.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
| Putting the World in Perspective | p. xxii |
| The Study of Humankind | p. 2 |
| The Nature of Anthropology | p. 4 |
| Methods of Studying the Human Past | p. 32 |
| Biology and Evolution | p. 58 |
| Primate Evolution and the Emergence of the Hominines | p. 86 |
| Monkeys, Apes, and Humans: The Modern Primates | p. 88 |
| Macroevolution and the Early Primates | p. 118 |
| The Earliest Hominines | p. 144 |
| Evolution of the Genus Homo and the Development of Early Human Culture | p. 168 |
| Homo habilis and Cultural Origins | p. 170 |
| Homo erectus and the Emergence of Hunting and Gathering | p. 192 |
| Archaic Homo sapiens and the Middle Paleolithic | p. 216 |
| Homo sapiens and the Upper Paleolithic | p. 240 |
| Human Biological and Cultural Evolution Since the Old Stone Age | p. 266 |
| Cultivation and Domestication | p. 268 |
| The Rise of Cities and Civilization | p. 300 |
| Modern Human Diversity | p. 330 |
| Glossary | p. 361 |
| Bibliography | p. 366 |
| Photo Credits | p. 372 |
| Literary Credits | p. 374 |
| Index | p. 375 |
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