Introduction to Paleoanthropology

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Summary

Current interpretations of the subsistence, settlement, and tool-use patterns of early hominids of the Oldowan period are more conservative than they have been in the past. Based upon these revised interpretations, the Oldowan toolmakers have recently been dehumanized.

Although much more advanced than advanced apes, they still were probably quite different from modern people with regard to their living arrangements, methods and sexual division of food procurement and the sharing of food.

The label human has to await the appearance of the next representative of the hominid family: Homo erectus.

Introduction to Paleoanthropology
Defining Paleoanthropology
Origin of Paleoanthropology
Importance of Bones
Early Hominid Fossils
Phylogeny and Chronology
Early Hominid Behavior
Oldowan
Acheulean
Hominids of the Acheulean
Technology in the Acheulean
Hominids of the Middle Paleolithic
Technology of the Middle Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic
Suggested Supplemental Reading
Dating Techniques
Cultural Evolution
Darwinian Thought
Genetics
Contemporary Primates
Humans as Primates
Origin of Language
From Hunter-Gatherer to Food Producer
Variation in Modern Human Populations
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