Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins
- J. Gowlett
- Biology
- 1 February 1999
Early archaeological sites, hominid remains and traces of fire from Chesowanja, Kenya
- J. Gowlett, J. Harris, D. Walton, B. Wood
- Environmental Science, GeographyNature
- 12 November 1981
Recent investigations of Lower Pleistocene sites at Chesowanja have yielded in situ Oldowan and Oldowan-like stone artefacts, evidence of fire and a fragmentary ‘robust’ australopithecine cranium.…
Form 2 The elements of design form in Acheulian bifaces : modes , modalities , rules and language
- J. Gowlett
- Economics
- 2005
Acheulian bifaces are multivariate objects, in which a set of variables were controlled by the manufacturers and users, constrained by basic needs and necessities. In any set of Acheulian bifaces,…
Hominid Use of Fire in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene: A Review of the Evidence [and Comments and Replies]
- S. James, R. Dennell, A. Stahl
- SociologyCurrent Anthropology
- 1 February 1989
Examen critique des donnees de 30 sites du Pleistocene inferieur et moyen d'Afrique, Asie et Europe, concernant l'utilisation du feu chez les premiers hominides. Les donnees anterieures aux…
The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process
- J. Gowlett
- Environmental SciencePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B…
- 5 June 2016
Although much remains to be worked out, it is plain that fire control has had a major impact in the course of human evolution.
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins.
- J. Gowlett, R. Klein
- Biology
- 1 June 1991
On questions surrounding the Acheulean ‘tradition’
- S. Lycett, J. Gowlett
- Geography
- 8 August 2008
Abstract The Acheulean, sometimes known as ‘the great handaxe tradition’, is the longest-lasting entity in the human cultural record. The oldest sites are in Africa at around 1.6 million years ago…
Earliest fire in Africa: towards the convergence of archaeological evidence and the cooking hypothesis
- J. Gowlett, R. Wrangham
- Environmental Science
- 1 March 2013
Issues of early fire use have become topical in human evolution, after a long period in which fire scarcely featured in general texts. Interest has been stimulated by new archaeological finds in…
First hominine remains from a ~1.0 million year old bone bed at Cornelia-Uitzoek, Free State Province, South Africa.
- J. Brink, A. Herries, L. Rossouw
- Geography, Environmental ScienceJournal of Human Evolution
- 1 September 2012
The Social Brain and the Shape of the Palaeolithic
- C. Gamble, J. Gowlett, Robin I. M. Dunbar
- PsychologyCambridge Archaeological Journal
- 31 January 2011
It is often the case in interdisciplinary accounts of human evolution that archaeological data are either ignored or treated superficially. This article sets out to redress this position by using…
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