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The Middle Palaeolithic: a point of inflection
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Guts and brains : an integrative approach to the hominin record
Full text linkThe human brain and its one hundred billion neurons compose the most complex organ in the body and harness more than 20 per cent of all the energy we produce. Why do we have such large and energy-demanding brains, and how have we been able to afford such an expensive organ for thousands of years? Guts and Brains discusses the key variables at stake in such a question, including the relationship between brain size and diet, diet and social organization, and large brains and the human sexual division of labour. This interdisciplinary volume provides an entry for the reader into understanding the development of both early primates and our own species.Wetensch. publicati
Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 31 / Hunters of the Golden Age : the mid upper palaeolithic of Eurasia : 30,000-20,000 BP
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Réévaluation du plus ancien peuplement de l'Europe
No full textRoebroeks Wil, Bosinski Gerhard, Farizy Catherine, Gamble Clive, Larsson Lars, Mussi Margherita, Praslov Nicolaï, Raposo Luis, Santonja Manuel, Tuffreau Alain. Réévaluation du plus ancien peuplement de l'Europe. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 92, n°2, 1995. pp. 138-141
Why hominids had big brains
No full textThe full-text of this book chapter is not available in ORA. Citation: Dunbar, R. I. M. (2007) Why hominids had big brains. In: Roebroeks, W. (ed.) Guts and brains: an integrative approach to the hominid record. Leiden: Leiden University Press, pp.91-106. N.B. Professor Dunbar is now based at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford
Hunters of the Golden Age: The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia, 30,000 - 20,000 BP
No full textThe period 30,000 to 20,000 BP can be aptly called the 'Golden Age' of hunter gatherers for a variety of reasons, spelled out in great detail by the 37 contributors to this impressive volume. In this period we find the first unambiguous burials after the Middle Palaeolithic, the earliest bona fide habitation structures and an unprecedented sophistication in raw material requirements which involved provisioning strategies over hundreds of kilometres. The volume deals at great length with many facets of the complex record of the period, with contributions on ecology, dating and the physical anthropology of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic population preceding a large number of papers dealing with archaeological issues, organized in a topical and a regional presentation. The book is the third and final volume in a series initiated by the European Science Foundation Network on the Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe
Mapping for regions
No full textThe most dominant form of visualization in regional design is mapping. This chapter seeks to unravel why and how maps are used in regional design and what sort of techniques may give maps agency. The chapter seeks to explain how the textual and visual languages of regional design are interconnected, in particular through the use metaphors. The chapter also discusses what may be called ‘cartographic anxiety’: the deliberate search to define a region through clear and exact perimeters. Claiming that this is a sort of dead-end street, the chapter presents various examples of how regions have been mapped and in what way maps have contributed to the acceptance of (new) public norms about ‘possible or desirable futures’. The overall claim of the chapter is that in regional design maps form the hinge between institutional and spatial design. It is for this reason that in discourse analysis there is a need to integrate a proper analysis of the sometimes bewildering visual language of maps.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Spatial Planning and Strateg
Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record
Full text linkThe human brain and its one hundred billion neurons compose the most complex organ in the body and harness more than 20 per cent of all the energy we produce. Why do we have such large and energy-demanding brains, and how have we been able to afford such an expensive organ for thousands of years? Guts and Brains discusses the key variables at stake in such a question, including the relationship between brain size and diet, diet and social organization, and large brains and the human sexual division of labour. This interdisciplinary volume provides an entry for the reader into understanding the development of both early primates and our own specie
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