The Hominid Individual in Context: Archaeological Investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 20
1 From empty spaces to lived lives exploring the individual in the Palaeolithic......Page 22
2 The Acheulean and the handaxe structure and agency in the Palaeolithic......Page 34
3 Transformations in dividuality personhood and palaeoliths in the Middle Pleistocene......Page 50
4 Seeking the Palaeolithic individual in East Africa and Europe during the Lower Middle Pleistocene......Page 71
5 The making of the biface and the making of the individual......Page 89
6 Observations on the relationship between Palaeolithic individuals and artefact scatters at the Middle Pleistocene site of Boxgrove UK......Page 102
7 The natural and socio cultural environment of Homo erectus at Bilzingsleben Germany......Page 119
8 The Lower Palaeolithic art of hunting the case of Schöningen 13 II 4 Lower Saxony Germany......Page 136
9 Tracking hominins during the last interglacial complex in the Rhineland......Page 154
10 Bones and powerful individuals faunal case studies from the Arctic and the European Middle Palaeolithic......Page 175
11 All in a day’s work Middle Pleistocene individuals materiality and the lifespace at Makapansgat South Africa......Page 197
12 Life and mind in the Acheulean a case study from India......Page 218
13 Individuals among palimpsest data fluvial landscapes in Southern England......Page 241
14 Being modern in the Middle Stone Age individuals and innovation......Page 265
15 Concluding remarks context and the individual......Page 286
Bibliography......Page 292
Index......Page 331