Search Neanderthals Solving Puzzle by Stringer Christopher: First Edition (13 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. Tall 8vo, 247 pp. Well-illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. DJ: as new BK: as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very clean book. Pictures on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This book has been read, no wear to covers or dust jackets. Previous owner signed first inner page. No other markings inner pages, spine in tact, no creases. "A survey of the current anthropological and archeological knowledge about Neanderthals examines their relationship to modern humans" Good Reads "Professor Christopher Brian Stringer, Fellow of the Royal Society currently works at the National History Museum, London, as research leader in human origins." Good Reads.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Fine. 1st Edition. Includes 183 illustrations.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, large octavo, a very faint stain to the head of the fore-edge a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper, dated signature of a previous owner on the front free endpaper else the text is free of marking, illustrated, 247pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st American Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed brown linen boards/NF w/small dents to front. DJ/NF w/trace wear to upper edges, and back surface. On ancestry of modern man. In 1856 bones of a possible pre-modern human were found in Neader Valley, Germany. The relationship between the 35,000 year-old low-browed, heavy-limbed creature and man has been much debated since, giving rise to "Multregional 1" versus "Out of Africa 2" schools. Here, English anthropologists Stringer & Gamble argue for the "Out of Africa 2" scenario. 247 pgs w/183 illustrations, in 9 chapters: 1, Who Where the Neanderthals?; 2, The Ice Age World; 3, Neanderthal Beginnings; 4, Portrait of a Neanderthal; 5, Humans at Crossroads: The Middle East Corridor; 6, The Dark Continent & Beyond: The Origin of Homo Sapiens; 7, Archaelogy of the Ancients; 8, The Fate of the Neanderthals; and 9, Close Kin or Distant Relatives?, followed by Epilogue abd Appendix. Fine copy despite flaws.…

First Edition. Illustrated study of the Neanderthals. Bookplate to to the half title otherwise VG in VG dustjacket protected by a removable plastic sleeve.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. 247pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Size: Small 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine DJ. First Edition Pu(Y). Thames & Hudson 1993 First Edition Pu(Y) Fine/Fine DJ Like new brown cloth with gilded lettering and design. Pos penned inside cover dated "June 1993". Bright illustrated pages. Illustrrated with drawings, photos and charts. 247 pages with index. LARGE HEAVY ITEM 1.77 Pounds. Size: 10 1/4 x 7 x 1 1/8 inches. No Exp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition glossy color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Author Dedication; Preface; Epilogue: The Lesson for Human Unity; Appendix: Selected Absolute Dates; Notes to the Text; Further Reading; Bibliography; Sources of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; and Index. Profusely illustrated with three sections of black-and-white photographic plates plus additional black-and-white drawings interspersed throughout the volume (183 illustrations). "Ever since the discovery of the bones of a pre-modern human in the Neander Valley, Germany, in 1856, the Neanderthals have provoked controversy. Who were these bettle-browed, heavy-limbed creatures, and how were they related to modern people? What caused their disappearance 35,000 years ago? Portrayed in endless cartoons and novels as club-wielding cavemen, the Neanderthals have become the archetype of all that is primitive and uncultured. Today Neanderthal specialists are locked in one of the fiercest debates in modern science. One side, the "multiregional" school, argues that the Neanderthals and their contemporaries elsewhere evolved semi-independently into modern humans. The other side, the "out of Africa" school, believes that the Neanderthals were an evolutionary dead end, replaced by fully modern people coming ultimately from Africa. The latter camp, now gaining the upper hand, is led by Christopher Stringer. Here, in this long-awaited volume, he sets out his views for the first time, in conjunction with the archaeologist Clive Gamble. Step by step the authors put their case. The Neanderthals had an anatomy crucially different from our own, adapted to the cold of Ice Age Europe. Neanderthal behavior, captured in the archaeological record, similarly points to fundamental differences. New genetic evidence strongly suggests a single origin for modern humans in Africa. What, then, was the fate of the Neanderthals? Stringer and Gamble argue that, capable and intelligent as they were, they eventually proved no match for the better-organized, better equipped newcomers. They did not evolve into modern humans: they simply died out. This important study, incorporating a photographic catalogue of key fossil finds, provides the most up-to-date account of curent knowledge about the Neanderthals and their world. For anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, palaeontologists - fro anyone interested in where we came from - it is essential reading." - from the rear outer cover. Woods, Michael (jacket photograph) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ever since the discovery of the bones of a pre- modern human in the Neander Valley, Germany, in 1856, the Neanderthals have provoked controversy. Who were these folk? How were they related to modern people? What caused their disappearance 35,000 years ago? The author sets out his view in this volume with archaeologist Clive Gamble.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom text block edge. Foxing on text block edges.; 248 pages.