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Crossing the Human Threshold: Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Middle Pleistocene
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When was the human threshold crossed? What is the evidence for evolving humans and their emerging humanity? This volume explores in a global overview the archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, 800,000 to 130,000 years ago when evidence for innovative cultural behaviour appeared. The evidence shows that the threshold was crossed slowly, by a variety of human ancestors, and was not confined to one part of the Old World.

Crossing the Human Threshold examines the changing evidence during this period for the use of place, landscape and technology. It focuses on the emergence of persistent places, and associated developments in tool use, hunting strategies and the control of fire, represented across the Old World by deeply stratified cave sites. These include the most important sites for the archaeology of human origins in the Levant, South Africa, Asia and Europe, presented here as evidence for innovation in landscape-thinking during the Middle Pleistocene. The volume also examines persistence at open locales through a cutting-edge review of the archaeology of Northern France and England.

Crossing the Human Threshold is for the worldwide community of students and researchers studying early hominins and human evolution. It presents new archaeological data. It frames the evidence within current debates to understand the differences and similarities between ourselves and our ancient ancestors.

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Crossing the Human Threshold

Crossing the Human Threshold examines the changing evidence during this period for the use of place, landscape and technology. It focuses on the emergence of persistent places, and associated developments in tool use, hunting strategies and the control of fire, represented across the Old World by deeply stratified cave sites. These include the most important sites for the archaeology of human origins in the Levant, South Africa, Asia and Europe, presented here as evidence for innovation in landscape-thinking during the Middle Pleistocene. The volume also examines persistence at open locales through a cutting-edge review of the archaeology of Northern France and England.

Crossing the Human Threshold is for the worldwide community of students and researchers studying early hominins and human evolution. It presents new archaeological data. It frames the evidence within current debates to understand the differences and similarities between ourselves and our ancient ancestors.

Matt Pope is a Principal Research Fellow in Palaeolithic Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is interested in patterning in the use, transportation and discard of artefacts by early humans, taphonomic processes and the geological context of Middle Pleistocene human occupation. He is currently exploring early human landscape use in the Pleistocene landscapes of the La Manche region.

John McNabb is a member of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of Southampton. He is interested in the social aspects of technology and material culture with especial reference to the Acheulean and the Lower Palaeolithic/Earlier Stone Age. He has worked extensively in Europe and Africa.

Clive Gamble is Emeritus Professor in the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO) at the University of Southampton and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway. From 200411 he was co-director of the British Academy Centenary research project Lucy to Language the Archaeology of the Social Brain. His recent books include Settling the earth: the archaeology of deep human history (2013) and Thinking Big: how the evolution of social life shaped the human mind (2014), with John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar.

Frames and Debates in Deep Human History

Edited by Clive Gamble

University of Southampton

For more information on this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Frames-and-Debates-in-Deep-Human-History/book-series/FDDHH

Crossing the Human Threshold

Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places during the Middle Pleistocene

Matt Pope, John McNabb, and Clive Gamble

Crossing the Human Threshold

Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Middle Pleistocene

Edited by Matt Pope, John McNabb, and Clive Gamble

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Contents

Section 1
Frames for interpretation: persistence and thresholds in the Middle Pleistocene

CLIVE GAMBLE

MATT POPE

Section 2
Regional case studies: dynamic transformation in Western Europe and the Levant

STEVEN L. KUHN, RON SHIMELMITZ AND AMY E. CLARK

RAN BARKAI, JORDI ROSELL, RUTH BLASCO AND AVI GOPHER

MARY C. STINER

ANNE-LYSE RAVON

BECCY SCOTT AND ANDREW SHAW

NICK ASHTON

MARK WHITE AND DAVID BRIDGLAND

DANIELLE SCHREVE

JEAN-LUC LOCHT, DAVID HRISSON AND EMILIE GOVAL

Section 3
Global debates

LYN WADLEY

JOHN A.J. GOWLETT, JAMES S. BRINK, SALLY M. HOARE AND STEPHEN M. RUCINA

ROBIN DENNELL

Nick Ashton is a Senior Curator of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the British Museum. He has directed excavations at several British Lower Palaeolithic sites, most recently at Happisburgh and Barnham. As co-director of the Pathways to Ancient Britain Project, his interests include the earliest occupation of northern Europe, the behavioural adaptations of humans to northern environments and the changing palaeogeography of Britain.

Ran Barkai is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University. Together with Professor Avi Gopher, he co-directs excavations at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave and has published extensively on different aspects of Palaeolithic and Neolithic technology, subsistence, cosmology and lifeways.

Ruth Blasco is a researcher at the National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain. Her interest is in the study of human subsistence strategies during the Middle and early Late Pleistocene using the taphonomic and zooarchaeologic disciplines. She is working at several archaeological sites in Europe and the Levant, including Atapuerca, Bolomor, Toll and Teixoneres caves in Spain, Gorhams and Vanguard caves in Gibraltar and Qesem Cave in Israel. Her research also involves the development of experimental programmes and neo-taphonomic projects on large and small carnivores in Spain. Currently, she is an editorial board member of Scientific Reports from the Nature Publishing Group.

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