{"product_id":"the-early-modern-human-from-hong-shang-9781603441773","title":"The Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China: Volume 14","description":"For more than a century, scientists have returned time and again to the issue of modern human emergence-the when and where of the evolutionary process and the human behavioral and biological dynamics involved.\u003cbr\u003eThe 2003 discovery of a human partial skeleton at Tianyuandong (Tianyuan Cave) excited worldwide interest. The first human skeleton from the region to be directly radiocarbon-dated (to 40,000 years before present), its geological age places it close to the time period during which modern humans became permanently established across the Old World (between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago).\u003cbr\u003eThrough detailed description and interpretation of the most complete early modern human skeleton from eastern Asia, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Modern Human from Tianyan Cave, China\u003c\/i\u003e, addresses long-term questions about the ancestry of modern humans in eastern Asia and the nature of the changes in human behavior with the emergence of modern human biology.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a detailed, paleontological and paleobiological presentation of this skeleton, its context, and its implications. By providing basic information for this important human fossil, offering inferences concerning the population processes involved in modern human emergence in eastern Eurasia, and by raising questions concerning the adaptations of these early modern human hunter-gatherers, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China\u003c\/i\u003e will take its place as a core contribution to the study of modern human emergence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hong Shang,Erik Trinkaus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1603441778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781603441773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.43w x 0.87d","brand":"Hong Shang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49097005826303,"sku":"9781603441773","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-early-modern-human-from-hong-shang-9781603441773","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}