Suggested Readings

Chapter 10: Homo sapiens and the Upper Paleolithic

Campbell, B. G., & Loy, J. D. (1995). Humankind Emerging (7th ed.). New York: HarperCollins.

Adapted in part from Time-Life’s Emergence of Man and Life Nature Library, this is a richly illustrated, up-to-date account of the Paleolithic. In it, Campbell integrates paleontological and archaeological data with ethnographic data on modern food foragers to present a rich picture of evolving Paleolithic ways of life.

Pfeiffer, J. E. (1985). The Creative Explosion. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

A fascinating and readable discussion of the origins of art and religion. Its main drawback is its focus on European art.

Prideaux, T., et al. (1973). Cro-Magnon Man. New York: Time-Life.

This beautifully illustrated volume in the Time-Life Emergence of Man series, though dated, is worth looking at for the illustrations. It also shows that, although our ideas about human evolution have changed over the past 30 years, some old biases still persist.

Wolpoff, M., & Caspari, R. (1997). Race and Human Evolution. New York: Simon & Schuster.

This book is a detailed but readable presentation of the multiregional hypothesis of modern human origins. Among its strengths is a discussion of the problem of defining what “anatomically modern” means.