the rise and diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic record /
edited by Michael D. Petraglia and Ravi Korisettar.
New York :
Routledge,
1998.
1 online resource (xix, 481 pages) :
illustrations, maps
One world archaeology ;
28
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The archaeology of the Lower Palaeolithic: background and overview / Ravi Korisettar, Michael D. Petraglia -- Techniques for the chronometry of the Palaeolithic: evidence for global colonization / Ashok K. Singhvi, Günther A. Wagner, Ravi Korisettar -- Towards a technological reassessment of East African Plio-Pleistocene lithic assemblages / Brian V. Ludwig, J.W.K. Harris -- The lifeways of Homo erectus inferred from archaeology and evolutionary ecology: a perspective from East Africa / Susan Cachel, J.W.K. Harris -- Raw material as evidence for human behaviour in the Lower Pleistocene: the Olduvai case / Daniel Stiles -- The earliest South African industries / Kathleen Kuman -- The Lower Palaeolithic settlement of Eurasia, with special reference to Europe / Nicolas Rolland -- Early colonizations and cultural continuities in the Lower Palaeolithic of western Asia / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Grasslands, tool making and the hominid colonization of southern Asia: a reconsideration / Robin W. Dennell -- Quaternary stratigraphy, palaeoclimate and the Lower Palaeolithic of India / Ravi Korisettar, S.N. Rajaguru -- The Lower Palaeolithic of India and its bearing on the Asian record / Michael D. Petraglia -- Lower Palaeolithic occupations in Nepal in relation to South Asia / Gudrun Corvinus -- Early Palaeolithic quartz industries in China / Jian Leng -- The Early Palaeolithic of the eastern region of the Old World in comparison to the West / J. Desmond Clark -- Concluding remarks: archaeology's fifth big question / Clive Gamble.