Early Man

208 Pages·1965·40.063 MB·English

by  F. Clark Howell, Editors of Time-Life Books

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EARLY
by F. Clark Howell
and the Editors of
TIME-LIFE BOOKS
TIME-LIFE BOOKS NEW YORK
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About the Author
—
F. Clark Howell has been interested in "stones and bones" as he
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calls the study ofpaleoanthropology since high school days, when
he won a tuition fellowship to the University of Chicago. Enrolling
there after service inthe navy, Howell studied under two important
teachers. From Sherwood L. Washburn (now at the University of
California and a consultant for The Primates in this series) he de-
veloped a solid background in physical anthropology and the evolu-
tion of human behavior. From Robert Braidwood he derived an
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interest in prehistory. In combining the influences of his two men-
tors, Howell has become the outstanding representative ofthat new
breed ofanthropologists who are able to synthesize data from many
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fields the earth sciences, human paleontology and prehistoric ar-
cheology. He has excavated early man sites in Spain and Africa,
studied museumcollectionsandprehistoric sites throughout Europe
and the Middle East and participated in many international semi-
nars on human evolution. Today Professor of Anthropology at Chi-
cago, he has written numerous scientific papers, edited two books,
and is the authorofa forthcoming volume on The Emergence ofMan.
ONTHECOVER:Thisistheskull ofa
Neanderthaler, one of 10 skeletons
found on Mount Carmel in Pales-
tine in the 1930s. Nearly 40,000
years old, it is discussed on page
127. Men like this are believed to
be ancestorsofmodem I'.uropeans.
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Contents
PAGE
Introduction 7
1 The Case for Man's Antiquity 9
2 Back beyond the Apes 31
3 Forward from the Apes 47
4 Homo Erectus: A True Man at Last 77
5 The Tools of Stone Age Man 101
6 Just Who Was Neanderthal? 123
7 The Dawn of Modern Man 144
8 The Persistent Savage 168
Bibliography 193
Appendix 194
Credits 196
Index 197
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