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Cave Bears and Modern Human Origins
Robert H. Gargett
其他書名
The Spatial Taphonomy of Pod Hradem Cave, Czech Republic
出版University Press of America, 1996
主題Science / Earth Sciences / GeologyScience / PaleontologyScience / Life Sciences / Zoology / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / ArchaeologySocial Science / Reference
ISBN07618023399780761802334
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lT1LAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book systematically examines an animal bone assemblage in order to ascertain its spatial patterning. The study was first undertaken to discover the likely animal actors responsible for any horizontal spatial patterning. There is much data to support the long-held notion that the cave was a hibernation den for bears. In this study, the author provides fresh insight by arguing that there is powerful evidence that these bear carcasses had been scavenged by wolves and hyenas. He also argues that animals can create spatial patterns in the absence of culture or modern human cognitive abilities. Gargett suggests that an effort must be made to identify distinctive spatial patterns that result from human cognitive processes, such as language and culture. Only then, he argues, will spatial analysis achieve its potential as a means to help resolve questions about the origins of modern humans. This book will appeal to Paleolithic archaeologists and Paleoanthropologists. Its analyses will interest vertebrate paleontologists and paleobiologists as well.