Before Modern Humans: New Perspectives on the African Stone Age

by Grant S. Mccall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367605376
• ISBN13: 9780367605377
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"