This volume explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists have for the study of our earliest ancestors. Previous investigations of human evolution in the Palaeolithic period have conventionally been from an ecological and behavioural point of view. The emphasis has been on how our early ancestors made a living, decided what to eat, adapted through their technology to the conditions of existence and reacted to changing ice age climates. The Hominid Individual in Context takes a different approach.
Rather than explaining the archaeology of stones and bones as the product of group decisions, the contributors investigate how individual action created social life. This challenge to the accepted standpoint of the Palaeolithic brings new models and theories into the period; innovations that are matched by the resolution of the data that preserve individual action among the artefacts. The book brings together examples from recent excavations at Boxgrove, Schoningen and Blombos Cave, and the analyses of findings from Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene excavations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The results will revolutionise the Palaeolithic as archaeologists search for the lived lives among the empty spaces that remain.
Chapter 1 From Empty Spaces to Lived Lives, Clive Gamble, Martin Porr;
Chapter 2 The Acheulean and the Handaxe, Terry Hopkinson, Mark J. White;
Chapter 3 Transformations in Dividuality, A. S. Field;
Chapter 4 Seeking the
Palaeolithic Individual in East Africa and Europe During the Lower-Middle
Pleistocene, J. A. J. Gowlett;
Chapter 5 The Making of the Biface and the
Making of the Individual, Martin Porr;
Chapter 6 Observations on the
Relationship Between Palaeolithic Individuals and Artefact Scatters at the
Middle Pleistocene Site of Boxgrove, UK, Matt Pope, Mark Roberts;
Chapter 7
The Natural and Socio-Cultural Environment of Homo Erectus at Bilzingsleben,
Germany, Dietrich Mania, Ursula Mania;
Chapter 8 The Lower Palaeolithic Art
of Hunting, Hartmut Thieme;
Chapter 9 Tracking Hominins During the Last
Interglacial Complex in the Rhineland, D. S. Adler, N. J. Conard;
Chapter 10
Bones and Powerful Individuals, Clive Gamble, Sabine Gaudzinski;
Chapter 11
All in a Days Work, Anthony Sinclair, John McNabb;
Chapter 12 Life and Mind
in the Acheulean, Michael D. Petraglia, Ceri Shipton, K. Paddayya;
Chapter 13
Individuals Among Palimpsest Data, Robert Hosfield;
Chapter 14 Being Modern
in the Middle Stone Age, C. Henshilwood, F. dErrico;
Chapter 15 Concluding
Remarks, Marcia-Anne Dobres;
Clive Gamble is Professor of Geography in the Centre for Quaternary Research at Royal Holloway, University of London. He spent many years at the University of Southampton, where he founded the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins. He is the author of many books, including Archaeology, The Basics (Routledge, 2001), and The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe (1999). Martin Porr is based at the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle, Germany. There he has been involved as a project manager for the high-profile exhibition of the Bronze Age Sky Disc of Nebra, in co-operation with the National Museum of Denmark.
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