Integrative Paths to the Past

About this book

Written to honor the trailbreaking paleoanthropologist, F. Clark Howell, and his interdisciplinary view of the search for human origins, this multidisciplinary anthology offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of evolutionary studies. Integrative Paths to the Past: provides overviews of current thinking about the origins of major groups of higher primates, including humans; features provocative reviews of all aspects of the earliest hominids; contains articles that typify the contextual and interdisciplinary influence of Howell on hominid studies, specifically the geological context; offers detailed overviews of the archeological record of the early hominids - from the earliest record of stone artifacts to the Iron Age; and covers the final phase of human evolution - from the European neandertals to the Asian fossil record.