- Bones and Ochre
- Marianne Sommer
- When ochre-stained bones were unearthed by William Buckland in a Welsh cave in 1823, they raised many unsettling questions regarding their origin, and inspired the casting and recasting of the character who became known as the Red Lady. Her biography reflects the personal, professional, and national ambitions of those who studied her, and echoes the era in which each bit of research was conducted. In telling her story, Sommer reveals how paleoanthropology has emerged as an international, interdisciplinary, and thoroughly modern science.
- Hardcover 2008
- Fossils
- Richard Fortey
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- The Human Skeleton
- Pat Shipman
- Alan Walker
- David Bichell
- Hardcover 1986
- Men
- Richard G. Bribiescas
- Men presents a new approach to understanding the human male by drawing upon life history and evolutionary theory.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton
- Alan Walker, Editor
- Richard Leakey, Editor
- On the slopes of the Nariokotome sand river in Kenya, sifting through sediments more than a million years old, Kamoya Kimeu uncovered a small piece of a skull. Piece followed piece--facial bones, teeth, vertebrae--and little by little paleontologists put together the most complete early hominid ever discovered, a Homo erectus skeleton christened the Nariokotome boy. This phenomenal find, a milestone in the history of paleoanthropology, is fully documented in this remarkable book. Beautifully illustrated and richly descriptive, The Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton takes us into the field and the laboratory, and into the far reaches of prehistory, to show us what the fossilized remains of a young boy can tell us about our beginnings.
- Hardcover
- Uniquely Human
- Philip Lieberman
- In a stimulating synthesis of cognitive science, anthropology, and linguistics, Lieberman tackles the fundamental questions of human nature: How and why are human beings so different from other species? Can the Darwinian theory of evolution explain human linguistic and cognitive ability? How do our processes of language and thought differ from those of Homo erectus 500,000 years ago, or of the Neanderthals 35,000 years ago? What accounts for human moral sense?
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback