A Global History of the Earlier Palaeolithic: Assembling the Acheulean World 1673-2020s By Professor Mark White explores the history of research into the Palaeolithic from its earliest origins to the modern day.
Have you ever found yourself wondering if handaxes could fly, or what differentiated Henri Breuil’s Acheulean VI from his Levalloisian V? Do you have nightmares about cybernetic processual wastelands or the agency of rocks? If the answer to these questions is yes, no or maybe, then this is the book for you.
Written under the working title “The Bumper Book of Bifaces” this newly published tome tells the story of both the ancient humans who made Palaeolithic stone tools, and the thoughts and ideas of scholars past and present who have spent their lives trying to understand them. It offers a linear and thematic account through the history of the earlier Palaeolithic Period, covering major discoveries, interpretations and debates worldwide from the embers of the Great Fire of London to the outbreak of Covid. It aims to provide students at all levels with a readable account of how ideas about the prehistoric past were formed and altered, and how the discipline came to be dominated by a succession of different theoretical paradigms.
A Global History of the Earlier Palaeolithic: Assembling the Acheulean World 1673-2020s By Professor Mark White is available in Hardback, Paperback and eBook from 21 October 2022.
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