This volume provides a landscape narrative of early hominin evolution, linking conventional material and geographic aspects of the early archaeological record with wider and more elusive social, cognitive and symbolic landscapes. It seeks to move beyond a limiting notion of early hominin culture and behaviour as dictated solely by the environment to present the early hominin world as the outcome of a dynamic dialogue between the physical environment and its perception and habitation by active agents. This international group of contributors presents theoretically informed yet empirically based perspectives on hominin and human landscapes.

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Cover
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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1 What use is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives?
Chapter 2 Local objects, distant symbols: fission-fusion social systems and the evolution of human cognition
Chapter 3 The Extension of Social Relations in Time and Space during the Palaeolithic and beyond
Chapter 4 Beyond animality and humanity. Landscape, metaphor and identity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe
Chapter 5 At the Heart of the African Acheulean: the physical, social and cognitive landscapes of Kilombe
Chapter 6 All in a day's work? Early conflicts in expertise, life history and time management
Chapter 7 To see a world in a hafted tool: birch pitch composite technology, cognition and memory in Neanderthals
Chapter 8 Ecological niches, technological developments and physical adaptations of early humans in Europe: the handaxe-heidelergensis hypothesis
Chapter 9 'Dancing to the Rhythms of the Biotidal Zone': Settlement history and culture history in Middle Pleistocene Britain
Chapter 10 'Forest Furniture' or 'Forest Managers'? On Neanderthal presence in Last Interglacial environments
Chapter 11 Late Pleistocene hominin adaptations in Greece
Chapter 12 In Search of Group Identity - Late Pleistocene Foragers in Northern China
Chapter 13 Handaxe symmetry in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: implications for the Acheulean gaze
Chapter 14 Landscapes of the dead: the evolution of human mortuary activity from body to place in Palaeolithic Europe
Chapter 15 Encoding and decoding the message: the case of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic female imagery
Chapter 16 Contextualising the female image - symbols for common ideas and communal identity in Upper Palaeolithic Societies
Chapter 17 Taking a Gamble: alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western Scotland
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