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Culture History and Convergent Evolution (eBook, PDF)

Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory?

Redaktion: Groucutt, Huw S.

Beschreibung

Covers various spatial and temporal periods to explore how to distinguish convergent evolution from cultural transmission

Determines how to detect ancient populations by analyzing material cultures and comparing them to lithic data

Draws on diverse contributions from leading archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists

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Autor

Dr. Huw S. Groucutt is group leader of the Max Planck 'Extreme Events Research Group' in Jena, Germany. He received his Bachelors in Archaeology and Masters in Paleoanthropology at the University of Sheffield in 2007 and 2008 respectively, and his PhD in Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford in 2013. He was then a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC funded Palaeodeserts project (2013-2016) and then a British Academy postdoctoral fellow (2016-2019), both at the University of Oxford. He has co-written over 50 journal articles, and co-edited four books and journal special issues. Dr Groucutt's research interests include human evolution and prehistory, stone tool technologies, human demographic changes in the Saharo-Arabian belt, and the relationship between hominin demography and environmental change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030461263
• Artikelnr.: 59881073