Dissent with Modification: Human Origins, Palaeolithic Archaeology and Evolutionary Anthropology in Britain 1859–1901

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McNabb
Keyword(s):  
Human Origins ◽  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Palaeolithic Archaeology

Palaeolithic and the study of it - F.F. Wenban-Smith & R.T. Hosfield (e.d.). Palaeolithic archaeology of the Solent river: proceedings of the Lithic Studics Society day meeting held at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton on Saturday 15th January 2000 (Lithic Studies Society Occasional Paper 7). vii+111 pages, 56 figures, 11 tables. 2001. London: Lithic Studies Society; 0-9513246-3-2 paperback £19.50. - Agnès Lamotte. Les industries à bifaces de l’Europe du Nord-Quest au Pléistocène moyen: l’apport des donnés des gisements du bassin de la Somme, de lșEscaut et de la Baie de St-Brieuc (British Archaeological Reports International series 932). vi+l79 pages, 88 figures, 221 tables. 2001. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-226-4 paperback £30. - Gisela Freund. Sesselfelsgrotte I: Grabungsverlauf und Stratigraphie (Forschungsprojekt ’Das Paläolithikum und Mesolithikum des Unteren Altmühltals Il’ Vol. I). 311 pages, 168 figures. 1998. Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei; 3-930843-42-0 (ISSN 0480-9106) hardback. - Ian Metcalfe, Jeremy M.B. Smith, Mike Morwood & Iain Davidson (ed.). Faunal and floral migrafions and evolution in SE Asia-Australasia. 416 pages. 150 figures, 34 tables. 2001. Lisse: Balkema; 90-5809-349-2 hardback €119, US$130 & £122. - Raymond Corbey & Roebrokes Wil (ed.). Studying human origins: disciplinary history and epistemology. viii+174 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables. 2001. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: 90-5356-464-0 hardback.

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (291) ◽  
pp. 240-240
Author(s):  
N. James
Keyword(s):  
Human Origins ◽  
Se Asia ◽  
Disciplinary History ◽  
Lithic Studies ◽  
Pléistocène Moyen ◽  
Palaeolithic Archaeology

scholarly journals Post-colonialism, human origins and the paradox of modernity

Antiquity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (358) ◽  
pp. 1058-1068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Porr ◽  
Jacqueline M. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Modern Human Origins ◽  
Evolutionary Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Palaeolithic Archaeology

Post-colonial thought affects the heart of Western science. Although there is comparatively little engagement with post-colonial theory in the fields traditionally concerned with human origins or human evolution, it should be of critical importance to Palaeolithic archaeology and human evolutionary studies. Examination of recent literature dealing with so-called modern human origins highlights key neglected aspects of this discourse, namely the status of nature and rationality, and demonstrates how these aspects are entangled with ongoing political and colonial influences on the production of knowledge.

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

From Dust to Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Chambers ◽  
Jacqueline Mitton
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Extrasolar Planets ◽  
Planetary Systems ◽  
History Of Astronomy ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Emergence Of Life

The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. This book tells the remarkable story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists and philosophers have sought to unravel this mystery down through the centuries, piecing together the clues that enabled them to deduce the solar system's layout, its age, and the most likely way it formed. Drawing on the history of astronomy and the latest findings in astrophysics and the planetary sciences, the book offers the most up-to-date and authoritative treatment of the subject available. It examines how the evolving universe set the stage for the appearance of our Sun, and how the nebulous cloud of gas and dust that accompanied the young Sun eventually became the planets, comets, moons, and asteroids that exist today. It explores how each of the planets acquired its unique characteristics, why some are rocky and others gaseous, and why one planet in particular—our Earth—provided an almost perfect haven for the emergence of life. The book takes readers to the very frontiers of modern research, engaging with the latest controversies and debates. It reveals how ongoing discoveries of far-distant extrasolar planets and planetary systems are transforming our understanding of our own solar system's astonishing history and its possible fate.

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