Sixteen papers taken from a `Human Roots' meeting held in Bristol in 2000 that focused on the question of `how different were humans and human behaviour in Africa and the Far east during the Middle Pleistocene'? The contributors draw on evidence from recent archaeological fieldwork and represent different schools of thought concerning the ...
A compilation of papers by leading palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists working in Africa and Asia on the Middle Pleistocene roots of our species, comparing the state of our current knowledge and looking to the future of research in this field.