Human Paleontology and Prehistory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Why Was Human Evolution So Rapid?

   • Ian Tattersall

   Pages 1-9

3. Wallace’s Controversy with Darwin on Man’s Mental Evolution, on the Position of the Natives in Human Evolution, and His Anticipation of Cultural Evolution, as Distinct from Biological Evolution

   • Joseph Neumann

   Pages 11-20

4. Man’s Place in Past and Future Evolution: A Historical Survey of Remarkable Ideas

   • David Wool

   Pages 21-29

5. The Paleoecology of the Upper Ndolanya Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania, and Its Implications for Hominin Evolution

   • Terry Harrison

   Pages 31-44

6. The Australopithecine Brain: Controversies Perpetual

   • Ralph L. Holloway

   Pages 45-52

7. Posture, Locomotion and Bipedality: The Case of the Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)

   • Matt Cartmill, Kaye Brown

   Pages 53-70

8. Canine Height and Jaw Gape in Catarrhines with Reference to Canine Reduction in Early Hominins

   • William L. Hylander

   Pages 71-93

9. Paranthropus: Where Do Things Stand?

   • Bernard Wood, Kes Schroer

   Pages 95-107

10. Feeding Behavior and Diet in Paranthropus boisei: The Limits of Functional Inference from the Mandible

    • David J. Daegling, Frederick E. Grine

    Pages 109-125

11. Aspects of Mandibular Ontogeny in Australopithecus afarensis

    • Halszka Glowacka, William H. Kimbel, Donald C. Johanson

    Pages 127-144

12. Middle Pleistocene Homo Crania from Broken Hill and Petralona: Morphology, Metric Comparisons, and Evolutionary Relationships

    • G. Philip Rightmire

    Pages 145-159

13. Thermoregulation in Homo erectus and the Neanderthals: A Reassessment Using a Segmented Model

    • Mark Collard, Alan Cross

    Pages 161-174

14. Behavioral Differences Between Near Eastern Neanderthals and the Early Modern Humans from Skhul and Qafzeh: An Assessment Based on Comparative Samples of Holocene Humans

    • Osbjorn M. Pearson, Vitale S. Sparacello

    Pages 175-186

15. The Acheulo-Yabrudian – Early Middle Paleolithic Sequence of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

    • Mina Weinstein-Evron, Yossi Zaidner

    Pages 187-201

16. A 3-D Look at the Tabun C2 Jaw

    • Katerina Harvati, Elisabeth Nicholson Lopez

    Pages 203-213

17. The Dentition of the Earliest Modern Humans: How ‘Modern’ Are They?

    • Shara E. Bailey, Timothy D. Weaver, Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Pages 215-232

18. Talking Hyoids and Talking Neanderthals

    • David W. Frayer

    Pages 233-237

19. 3D Reconstruction of Spinal Posture of the Kebara 2 Neanderthal

    • Ella Been, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Patricia A. Kramer, Alon Barash

    Pages 239-251

20. Brother or Other: The Place of Neanderthals in Human Evolution

    • Rachel Caspari, Karen R. Rosenberg, Milford H. Wolpoff

    Pages 253-271

The aim of the book is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak (a leading scholar in paleoanthropology).​ ​The volume presents a collection of original papers contributed by many of Yoel's friends and colleagues from all over the globe. 

Contributions from experts around the globe fall roughly into three broad categories: Reflections on some of the broad theoretical questions of evolution, and especially about human evolution; the early hominins, with special emphasis on Australopithecus afarensis and Paranthropus; and the Neanderthals, that contentious group of our closest extinct relatives. Within and across these categories, nearly every paper addresses combinations of methodological, analytical and theoretical questions that are pertinent to the whole human evolutionary time span. This book will appeal most to scholars and advanced students in paleoanthropology, human paleontology and prehistoric archaeology.

• Neanderthals
• Yoel Rak
• human evolution
• cultural and biological evolution
• Upper Ndolanya Bed
• Hominin Evolution
• Kebara 2 Neanderthal
• Tabun C2 Jaw
• Near Eastern Neanderthals
• Australopithecus afarensis
• Paranthropus
• diagnostic morphologies of bipedality
• mandibular morphology and dentition of australopiths
• paleodemography
• human paleoanthropology

“In summary, this book presents new and expanded data sets on fossil humans, especially australopithecines and Neanderthals. Chapter contributors read like a Who’s Who in current paleoanthropology. The illustrations are beautiful, providing fine anatomical and archaeological detail. Anatomical coverage is extensive, ranging from the dentition, cranium, mandible, and hyoid to the limbs, pel¬vis, and spine.” (Susan Cachel, Rutgers University)

• Department of Anatomy & Anthropolog, Tel-Aviv University Department of Anatomy & Anthropolog, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  Assaf Marom

• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem, Israel

  Erella Hovers

Assaf Marom is a M.D, Ph.D student at the Department of Anatomy & Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. 

Erella Hovers is a Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research Interests include understanding the Plio-Pleistocene archaeology in East Africa, the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, the evolution of symbolism and art, lithic technology, subsistence and mobility (land-use strategies) of early hominins, taphonomy and site formation processes, and archaeological theory.

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