Human Antiquity

By Michael Alan Park, Kenneth L. Feder, Michael A. Park

Book Overview

Where did we come from? To answer this question, anthropologists reconstruct the human past and study the human present from both biological and cultural perspectives. "Human Antiquity" offers an absorbing, straightforward explanation of human origins and evolution by thoroughly integrating physical anthropology and archaeology. Co-authors Kenneth Feder and Michael Park combine the ideas, methods, and knowledge from both biological anthropology and archaeology into a unified effort: Feder is an archeologist who conducts surveys, excavations, and analyses to understand the native inhabitants of New England; Park is a biological anthropologist interested in the application of evolutionary theory to the biological history of our species. .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559346841
• ISBN13: 9781559346849
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 535 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An ideal text for classroom curriculums

Now in a revised and updated fourth edition, Human Antiquity: An Introduction To Physical Anthropology And Archaeology continues to be an ideal text for classroom curriculums. Absorbing, straightforward explanations of human origins and evolution are presented beginning with an innovative opening chapter surveying creation myths and comparing the methods and purposes of science with those of belief systems. Also included in this outstanding text are an overview of evolution, and offers up-to-date information on such controversial issues as the Human Genome project, scientific creationism, the "collapse" of civilization, and more. With this new edition is a section on the contribution of genetics to questions of the geographic source of Native Americans, a major revision and update on the archaeology of Catalhoyuk, the Indus Valley, and the Olmec, early hominid diets, new finds from Dmanisis, Georgia, and Bose in southern China, stone tools from West Turkana, and much, much more. Human Antiquity is reader friendly and an ideal text for the non-specialist general reader seeking to become introductorily acquainted with the latest developments in both physical anthropology and archaeology.

This book was a great introductory book with great pictures

I used this for an introductory Anthropology/Archaeology course and found it easy to understand and very informative. The vocabulary was easy to find and learn and the by using the index it was possible to find subjects easily. I really liked using this book. It also had great picutres.