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03876aam a2200373 i 4500 001 C5241336C19D11EEA89D2B6520ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240202013317 008 221206t20232023enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022050766 020 $a 1108452981 020 $a 9781108452984 020 $a 1108429084 020 $a 9781108429085 035 $a (OCoLC)1353921632 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d CDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d QX7 $d CIA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GN281 S424 2023 100 1 $a Shea, John J. $q (John Joseph), $e author. 245 14 $a The unstoppable human species : $b the emergence of homo sapiens in prehistory / $c John J. Shea. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a xviii, 345 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-336) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Hard evidence -- Who are these people? -- How did they get here? -- Ancient Africans -- Going east: first Asians -- Down under: early Southeast Asians and Sahulians -- Neanderthal country -- Going north: early Eurasians -- A brave new world: Pleistocene Americans -- Movable feasts: food producers and migration -- Distant horizons and stars beckon: oceanic islands and beyond -- Unstoppable? Human extinction -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Traditional archaeological age-stages -- Appendix B: Survival archaeology recommended readings -- Appendix C: Further reading. 520 $a "The Unstoppable Human Species In The Unstoppable Species John J. Shea explains how the earliest humans achieved mastery over all but the most severe, biosphere-level, extinction threats. He explores how and why we humans owe our survival skills to our global geographic range, a diaspora that was achieved during prehistoric times. By developing and integrating a suite of Ancestral Survival Skills, humans overcame survival challenges better than other hominins, and settled in previously unoccupied habitats. But how did they do it? How did early humans endure long enough to become our ancestors? Shea places "how did they survive?" questions front and center in prehistory. Using an explicitly scientific, comparative, and hypothesis-testing approach, The Unstoppable Human Species critically examines much "archaeological mythology" about prehistoric humans. Written in clear and engaging language, Shea's volume offers an original and thought-provoking perspective on human evolution. Moving beyond unproductive archaeological debates about prehistoric population movements, The Unstoppable Human Species generates new and interesting questions about human evolution. John J. Shea is Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, New York. He is the author of Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences Among Technological Primates (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa: A Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2020). A paleoanthropologist, archaeologist, and an experienced practitioner of ancestral survival skills, Shea's demonstrations of stoneworking appear in numerous television documentaries and in the United States National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Human beings $x Origin. 650 0 $a Human evolution. 650 0 $a Prehistoric peoples. 650 0 $a Survival. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Shea, John J. (John Joseph) $t Unstoppable human species $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 $z 9781108554060 $w (DLC) 2022050767 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502014243.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C5241336C19D11EEA89D2B6520ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search