Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization

Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 309 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. The notion of progress still bedevils our conception of prehistory, with human evolution persistently seen as a movement from inferior to superior, primitive to advanced, simple to complex. Timewalkers extricates prehistory from the myths and distortions created by this view of the past. By focusing on changes in behavior and stressing the deliberate human purpose our ancestors displayed in their migrations, Clive Gamble produces a fresh and frankly provocative synthesis of the archaeology of the last three million years. This new approach to human prehistory proceeds from a detailed study of global colonization rather than a conventional reassessment of fossil remains and stone tools. Gamble reconsiders the remarkable record of geographical expansion that began with the early hominids of sub-Saharan Africa who spread to new continents, to the marginal environments of desert and taiga, and to islands in the oceans and the Mediterranean. Through this astonishing dispersal of humans, which exceeds that of all other mammals, he traces calculated responses to variations in climate and environment. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Anthropology; Pre-History; Britain/UK; Ancient (BC); History. ISBN: 075090321x. ISBN/EAN: 9780750903219. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10345. . 9780750903219