Before Modern Humans (Record no. 3737)
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| fixed length control field | 01583 a2200241 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 131543315X |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250317111557.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250312042016GB eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781315433158 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Taylor & Francis |
| Terms of availability | GBP 38.99 |
| Form of issue | BB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 01 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | NK |
| Source | thema |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | HD |
| Source | bic |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | SOC003000 |
| Source | bisac |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | 569.9096 |
| Source | bisac |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Grant S. McCall |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Before Modern Humans |
| Remainder of title | New Perspectives on the African Stone Age |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20160616 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 390 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Expansion of summary note | This fascinating volume, assessing Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory, argues that the onset of the Middle Stone Age marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers. Inaugurating a paradigm shift in our understanding of modern human behavior, Grant McCall argues that this transition—related to the origins of “home base” residential site use—occurred in mosaic fashion over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. He concludes by proposing a model of brain evolution driven by increasing subsistence diversity and intensity against the backdrop of larger populations and Pleistocene environmental unpredictability. McCall argues that human brain size did not arise to support the complex patterns of social behavior that pervade our lives today, but instead large human brains were co-opted for these purposes relatively late in prehistory, accounting for the striking archaeological record of the Upper Pleistocene. |
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