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• Title:Dragon Bone Hill : an Ice-Age saga of Homo erectus / Noel T. Boaz, Russell L. Ciochon.
  
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• Author/Creator:Boaz, Noel Thomas.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ciochon, Russell L.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Call Number: GN284.7 .B63 2004
    
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  • Call Number: GN284.7 .B63 2004
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Peking man.
  Excavations (Archaeology)--China--Zhoukoudian.
  Zhoukoudian (China)--Antiquities.
  
• Description:xvii, 232 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:"Boaz and Ciochon take readers on a gripping scientific odyssey. New evidence shows that Homo erectus was an opportunist who rode a tide of environmental change out of Africa and into Eurasia, puddle-jumping from one gene pool to the next. Armed with a shaky hold on fire and some sharp rocks, Homo erectus incredibly survived for over 1.5 million years, much longer than our own species Homo sapiens has been on Earth. Tell-tale marks on fossil bones show that the lives of these early humans were brutal, ruled by hunger and who could strike the hardest blow, yet there are fleeting glimpses of human compassion as well. The small brain of Homo erectus and its strangely unchanging culture indicate that the species could not talk. Part of that primitive culture included ritualized aggression, to which the extremely thick skulls of Homo erectus bear mute witness."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.
  
• ISBN:0195152913 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. The Bones of Dragon Hill
  Ch. 2. The Dragon Reclaims Its Own
  Ch. 3. Giants and Genes: Changing Views of Peking Man's Evolutionary Significance
  Ch. 4. The Third Function: A Hypothesis on the Mysterious Skull of Peking Man
  Ch. 5. The Adaptive Behavior of the Not-Quite-Human
  Ch. 6. The Times and Climes of Homo erectus
  Ch. 7. The Nature of Humanness at Longgushan: Brain, Language, Fire, and Cannibalism
  Ch. 8. Alpha and Omega: Resolving the Ultimate Questions of the Beginnings and Endings of Homo erectus, the Species
  Ch. 9. Testing the New Hypotheses.