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008			250312042016GB eng
020			_a9781315433165
037			_bTaylor & Francis _cGBP 38.99 _fBB
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041			_aeng
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072	7		_aHD _2bic
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100	1		_aGrant S. McCall
245	1	0	_aBefore Modern Humans _bNew Perspectives on the African Stone Age
250			_a1
260			_aOxford _bRoutledge _c20160616
300			_a390 p
520			_bThis 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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