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Using an explicitly scientific and comparative approach, The Unstoppable Human Species critically examines 'archaeological mythology' about prehistoric humans. Written in clear and engaging language, this book offers an original and thought-provoking perspective on human evolution. It explains how early humans evolved and settled the world.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Hard evidence; 3. Who are these people?; 4. How did they get here?; 5. Ancient Africans; 6. Going east: Southern Asia; 7. Down Under: Southeastern Asians and Sahulians; 8. Neanderthal Country; 9. Going North: early Eurasians; 10. A brave new world: Pleistocene Americans; 11. Movable feasts: food producers and migrations; 12. Distant horizons and stars beckon: Oceanic islands and beyond; 13. Unstoppable? Human extinction; 14. Conclusion.
About the author
John J. Shea is Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, New York. He is the author of Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences Among Technological Primates (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa: A Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2020). A paleoanthropologist, archaeologist, and an experienced practitioner of ancestral survival skills, Shea's demonstrations of stoneworking appear in numerous television documentaries and in the United States National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
Summary
Using an explicitly scientific and comparative approach, The Unstoppable Human Species critically examines 'archaeological mythology' about prehistoric humans. Written in clear and engaging language, this book offers an original and thought-provoking perspective on human evolution. It explains how early humans evolved and settled the world.
