TY  - GEN
AU  - Barnouw,Victor
TI  - Phisycal anthropology and archaeology. An introducction to anthropology
T2  - Dorsey series in anthropology
U1  - 599.9 21
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Illinois - US
PB  - Dorsey
KW  - ANTROPOLOGIA BIOLOGICA
KW  - EVOLUCION
KW  - HOMBRE PREHISTORICO
KW  - HOMBRE PRIMITIVO
KW  - ARQUEOLOGIA
KW  - RAZAS HUMANAS
KW  - EDAD DE PIEDRA
KW  - CIVILIZACION
KW  - CULTURA
KW  - PRIMATES
KW  - MONOS
KW  - SIMIO
KW  - ANTROPOMETRIA
KW  - ARQUITECTURA PREHISPANICA
KW  - ANTROPOLOGIA
N1  - Obra escrita en idioma Inglés
N2  - Contiene: This first volume, is concerned with man as biological organism and with man's evolution from simpler life forms as well as the development of now extinct cultures. This third edition includes a new chapter on "The first Americans" and new final chapter, "Retrospect and Prospect. Former chapters on the concepts of race and cline have been  combined and moved to the end of the book. New methods of dating in Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs have been incorporated along with up to date news of fossil finds. INTRODUCTION: The field of anthropology - THE HISTORICAL background of physical anthropology and archaeology - METHODS of archaeology and physical anthropology - MECHANISMS of evolutionary - HOW HUMAN beings are classified among the vertebrates - THE SOCIAL LIFE of primates - THE EARLIEST hominoid fossils - THE AUSTRALOPITHECINES - HOMO erectus - THE NEANDERTHALS - HOMO SAPIENS in the upper paleolithic - THE FIRST AMERICANS - THE MESOLITHIC. Post-pleistocene transition - THE DOMESTICATION of plants and animals - NEOLITHIC patterns - THE DEVELOPMENT of civilizations - FOUR CENTERS of old world civilization - MOVEMENTS of peoples, cultures, and ideas - THE CONCEPT of race - THE CONCEPT OF CLINE and the study of single-trait distributions - RETROSPECT and prospect. INCLUDES: Glossary
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