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Dragon Bone Hill : an Ice-Age saga of Homo erectus / Noel T. Boaz, Russell L. Ciochon.

Title
Dragon Bone Hill : an Ice-Age saga of Homo erectus / Noel T. Boaz, Russell L. Ciochon.
Author
Boaz, Noel Thomas.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Ciochon, Russell L.
Description
xvii, 232 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"Boaz and Ciochon take readers on a gripping scientific odyssey. New evidence shows that Homo erectus was an opportunist who rode a tide of environmental change out of Africa and into Eurasia, puddle-jumping from one gene pool to the next. Armed with a shaky hold on fire and some sharp rocks, Homo erectus incredibly survived for over 1.5 million years, much longer than our own species Homo sapiens has been on Earth. Tell-tale marks on fossil bones show that the lives of these early humans were brutal, ruled by hunger and who could strike the hardest blow, yet there are fleeting glimpses of human compassion as well. The small brain of Homo erectus and its strangely unchanging culture indicate that the species could not talk. Part of that primitive culture included ritualized aggression, to which the extremely thick skulls of Homo erectus bear mute witness."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Biological Evolution
  • China
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Zhoukoudian
  • Fossils
  • Hominidae
  • Paleontology
  • Peking man
  • Zhoukoudian (China) > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-215) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The bones of Dragon Hill -- The dragon reclaims its own -- Giants and genes: Changing views of Peking Man's evolutionary significance -- The third function: A hypothesis on the mysterious skull of Peking Man -- The adaptive behavior of the not-quite-human -- The times and climes of Homo erectus -- The nature of humanness at Longgushan: Brain, language, fire, and cannibalism -- Alpha and Omega: Resolving the ultimate questions of the beginning and endings of Homo erectus, the species -- Testing the new hypotheses.
ISBN
0195152913
LCCN
^^2003012339
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library