Physical anthropology and archaeology /
Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Peter N. Peregrine.
- custom ed.
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009.
- xv, 322 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-308) and index.
What is anthropology? -- How we discover the past -- How we study the human body -- Genetics and evolution -- Human variation and adaptation -- The living primates -- Primate evolution : from early primates to hominoids -- The first hominids -- The origins of culture and language -- The emergence of homo -- The emergence of homo sapiens -- The Upper Paleolithic world -- Origins of food production and settled life -- Origins of cities and states -- Cultural resource management and forensic anthropology -- Medical anthropology.