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The Hominid Individual in Context

This volume explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information

that archaeologists have for the study of our earliest ancestors. Previous inves-

tigations of human evolution in the Palaeolithic period have conventionally

been from an ecological and behavioural point of view. The emphasis has been

on how our early ancestors made a living, decided what to eat, adapted through

their technology to the conditions of existence and reacted to changing ice age

climates. The Hominid Individual in Context takes a different approach.

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 into the period; innovations that are matched by

the resolution of the data that preserve individual action among the artefacts.

The book brings together examples from recent excavations at Boxgrove,

Schöningen and Blombos Cave, and the analyses of ﬁndings from Middle and

Early Upper Pleistocene excavations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The results

will revolutionise the Palaeolithic as archaeologists search for the lived lives

among the empty spaces that remain.

Clive Gamble is Professor of Geography in the Centre for Quaternary Research

at Royal Holloway, University of London. He spent many years at the University

of Southampton, where he founded the Centre for the Archaeology of Human

Origins. He is the author of many books, including Archaeology, The Basics

(Routledge, 2001), and The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe (1999).

Martin Porr is based at the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle,

Germany. There he has been involved as a project manager for the high-proﬁle

exhibition of the Bronze Age Sky Disc of Nebra, in co-operation with the

National Museum of Denmark.

The Hominid Individual

in Context

Archaeological investigations

of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic

landscapes, locales and artefacts

Edited by Clive Gamble

and Martin Porr

First published 2005

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The hominid individual in context : archaeological investigations of

lower and middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales, and artefacts /

edited by Clive Gamble and Martin Porr.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Paleolithic period. 2. Fossil hominids. 3. Human evolution.

4. Social evolution. 5. Hominids. I. Gamble, Clive. II. Porr, Martin.

GN771.I53 2005

930.1 ′ 2–dc21

2004014096

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