Traces of the Distant Human Past - Understanding the Archaeology of our Origins

List of contents

1. The behavioral ecology of early Oldowan sites: new empirical and methodological advances from Olduvai Gorge Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and Enrique Baquedano; 2. Homo the Hunter: a consideration of how natural selection shaped the sociobiology of hunting and gathering Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and Enrique Baquedano; 3. The first foragers of the European continent. Key pieces for a broken puzzle Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo and Palmira Saladié; 4. The new taphonomy and how it can boost the role of the Asian Pleistocene archaeological record in human evolution Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Enrique Baquedano, Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Abel Moclán and Shuangquan Zhang; Conclusions Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and Enrique Baquedano; Index.

About the author

Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo is is Professor of Archaeology at Rice University and co-director of the Institute of Evolution in Africa, University of Alcala. Co-director of the Olduvai Paleoanthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP), he was awarded the National Research Prize by the Spanish Geographic Society.Enrique Baquedano is Director of the Archaeological and Paleontological Museum of the Community of Madrid and Co-Director of the Institute of Evolution in Africa, University of Alcala.

Product details

• Assisted by: Enrique Baquedano (Editor), Dominguez-Rodrigo Manuel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.11.2025
• EAN: 9781009670593
• ISBN: 978-1-009-67059-3
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Europe, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, East Asia, Far East, Archaeology by period / region, Sub-Saharan Africa, Geological time