Any book by Clive Gamble is good news for those interested in a
broader, integrated view of human evolution: it will be thoughtful,
provocative, and enlightening. This latest volume is no exception.
Written at least in part as a response to some of the hype
surrounding the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage, it asks the
question of why people have turned out to be almost everywhere on
the globe...Gamble has set himself a considerable task in seeking
to weave a coherent cloth from the threads of a multitude of
disciplines and subdisciplines, from archaeology through physical
anthropology and paleoenvironmental reconstruction to evolutionary
theory...There is much food for thought here, and ["Timewalkers"]
represents the kind of effort that must be made to integrate the
massive amount of information that we now have about evolution in
general and the development, and context of development, of our own
species in particular.--Alan Turner "Quarterly Review of Biology
"
Clive Gamble picks up the project of interrogating academic
explanations of the past...[His] study is impressive...The material
of this book is exciting; Gamble has fruitfully appropriated the
metaphors of other disciplines, literary studies in particular, for
his own purposes.--Noel Elizabeth Currie "Canadian Literature "
Why were people everywhere? Gamble offers an innovative look at how
archaeologists use artifacts and human biological remains to answer
this question and to describe how our human ancestors colonized the
earth...[A] unique contribution.
Any book by Clive Gamble is good news for those interested in a
broader, integrated view of human evolution: it will be thoughtful,
provocative, and enlightening. This latest volume is no exception.
Written at least in part as a response to some of the hype
surrounding the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage, it asks the
question of why people have turned out to be almost everywhere on
the globe...Gamble has set himself a considerable task in seeking
to weave a coherent cloth from the threads of a multitude of
disciplines and subdisciplines, from archaeology through physical
anthropology and paleoenvironmental reconstruction to evolutionary
theory...There is much food for thought here, and ["Timewalkers"]
represents the kind of effort that must be made to integrate the
massive amount of information that we now have about evolution in
general and the development, and context of development, of our own
species in particular.--Alan Turner "Quarterly Review of Biology
"
Clive Gamble picks up the project of interrogating academic
explanations of the past...[His] study is impressive...The material
of this book is exciting; Gamble has fruitfully appropriated the
metaphors of other disciplines, literary studies in particular, for
his own purposes.--Noel Elizabeth Currie "Canadian Literature "
Why were people everywhere? Gamble offers an innovative look at how
archaeologists use artifacts and human biological remains to answer
this question and to describe how our human ancestors colonized the
earth...[A] unique contribution.
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