false 64217 1 1 111014 0471252522 9780471252528 3 <![CDATA[The Dawn of Human Culture]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648039m/111014.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648039s/111014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111014.The_Dawn_of_Human_Culture 3.61 18 A bold new theory on what sparked the "big bang" of human culture

The abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human evolution. This compelling book introduces a bold new theory on this unsolved mystery. Author Richard Klein reexamines the archaeological evidence and brings in new discoveries in the study of the human brain. These studies detail the changes that enabled humans to think and behave in far more sophisticated ways than before, resulting in the incredibly rapid evolution of new skills. Richard Klein has been described as "the premier anthropologist in the country today" by Evolutionary Anthropology. Here, he and coauthor Blake Edgar shed new light on the full story of a truly fascinating period of evolution.

Richard G. Klein, PhD (Palo Alto, CA), is a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of the definitive academic book on the subject of the origins of human culture, The Human Career. Blake Edgar (San Francisco, CA) is the coauthor of the very successful From Lucy to Language, with Dr. Donald Johanson. He has written extensively for Discover, GEO, and numerous other magazines.

]]> 64217 3.63 27 6 2002 763909 0226439631 9780226439631 2 <![CDATA[The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178144074m/763909.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178144074s/763909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763909.The_Human_Career_Human_Biological_and_Cultural_Origins 3.86 7 Evolution) and "the best introduction to the problems and data of modern palaeoanthropology yet published" (R. A. Foley, Antiquity), The Human Career has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins since its publication in 1989. This substantially revised edition retains Richard Klein's innovative approach and incorporates new findings from the past decade.

The Human Career chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. Its comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record and the archeological record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, Klein emphasizes that human morphology and behavior evolved together. Throughout the text, Klein presents evidence for alternative points of view, but also does not hesitate to take a position.

In addition to outlining the broad pattern of human evolution, The Human Career details the kinds of data that support this pattern, including information on archeological sites, artifacts, fossils, and methods for establishing dates in geological time. With abundant references and hundreds of illustrations, charts, and diagrams, this new edition is unparalleled in its usefulness for teaching human evolution.
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After setting forth the interpretive framework that governs their use of numbers in faunal analysis, Richard G. Klein and Kathryn Cruz-Uribe survey various measures of taxonomic abundance, review methods for estimating the sex and age composition of a fossil species sample, and then give examples to show how these measures and sex/age profiles can provide useful information about the past. In the second part of their book, the authors present the computer programs used to calculate and analyze each numerical measure or count discussed in the earlier chapters. These elegant and original programs, written in BASIC, can easily be used by anyone with a microcomputer or with access to large mainframe computers.</div>]]> 64217 3.63 27 6 1984 6076781 0226439577 9780226439570 0 <![CDATA[Analysis of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6076781.Analysis_of_Animal_Bones_from_Archaeological_Sites 0.0 0
After setting forth the interpretive framework that governs their use of numbers in faunal analysis, Richard G. Klein and Kathryn Cruz-Uribe survey various measures of taxonomic abundance, review methods for estimating the sex and age composition of a fossil species sample, and then give examples to show how these measures and sex/age profiles can provide useful information about the past. In the second part of their book, the authors present the computer programs used to calculate and analyze each numerical measure or count discussed in the earlier chapters. These elegant and original programs, written in BASIC, can easily be used by anyone with a microcomputer or with access to large mainframe computers.</DIV>]]> 64217 3.63 27 6 576876 0.0 0 1 1984 6669864 0226439658 9780226439655 0 <![CDATA[The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Third Edition]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6669864-the-human-career 0.0 0 Since its publication in 1989, The Human Career has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein’s innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and analyses over the past ten years have significantly refined our knowledge of human evolution.

Klein chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. His comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record and the archaeological record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, The Human Career demonstrates that human morphology and behavior evolved together. Throughout the book, Klein presents evidence for alternative points of view, but does not hesitate to make his own position clear.

In addition to outlining the broad pattern of human evolution, The Human Career details the kinds of data that support it. For the third edition, Klein has added numerous tables and a fresh citation system designed to enhance readability, especially for students. He has also included more than fifty new illustrations to help lay readers grasp the fossils, artifacts, and other discoveries on which specialists rely. With abundant references and hundreds of images, charts, and diagrams, this new edition is unparalleled in its usefulness for teaching human evolution.

</DIV></DIV>]]> 64217 3.63 27 6 2009 5941736 1597405884 9781597405881 0 <![CDATA[Man and Culture in the Late Pleistocene: A Case Study]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5941736.Man_and_Culture_in_the_Late_Pleistocene_A_Case_Study 0.0 0 64217 3.63 27 6 2008 3523933 9061910978 9789061910978 0 <![CDATA[Southern African Prehistory and Paleoenvironments]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217433041m/3523933.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217433041s/3523933.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3523933.Southern_African_Prehistory_and_Paleoenvironments 0.0 0 64217 3.63 27 6 1984 1339950 1597402052 9781597402057 0 <![CDATA[Ice-age Hunters of the Ukraine]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1339950.Ice_age_Hunters_of_the_Ukraine 0.0 0 64217 3.63 27 6 1973