Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice Age Saga of Homo erectus

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Noel T. Boaz (, International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research, Spokane) Russell L. Ciochon (Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa)

Dragon Bone Hill

An Ice Age Saga of Homo erectus

Noel T. Boaz (, International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research, Spokane), Russell L. Ciochon (Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 March 2004

Popular science; Early man; Palaeontology

"""Peking Man,"" a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena.

Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, scientists Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon retell the story of the cave's unique species of early human, Homo erectus.

Boaz and Ciochon take readers on a gripping scientific odyssey.

New evidence shows that Homo erectus was an opportunist who rode a tide of environmental change out Africa and into Eurasia, puddle-jumping from one gene pool to the next.

Armed with a shaky hold on fire and some sharp rocks, Homo erectus incredibly survived for over 1.5 million years, much longer than our own species Homo sapiens has been on Earth. Tell-tale marks on fossil bones show that the lives of these early humans were brutal, ruled by hunger and who could strike the hardest blow, yet there are fleeting glimpses of human compassion as well. The small brain of Homo erectus and its strangely unchanging culture indicate that the species could not talk. Part of that primitive culture included ritualized aggression, to which the extremely thick skulls of Homo erectus bear mute witness.

Both a vivid recreation of the unimagined way of life of a prehistoric species, so similar yet so unlike us, and a fascinating exposition of how modern multidisciplinary research can test hypotheses in human evolution, Dragon Bone Hill is science writing at its best."

By: Noel T. Boaz ( International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research Spokane), Russell L. Ciochon (Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 587g
ISBN: 9780195152913
ISBN 10: 0195152913
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 01 March 2004
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Noel T. Boaz is Professor of Anatomy, Ross University School of Medicine. He is the author of Evolving Health, Eco Homo and Quarry: Closing in on the Missing Link. Russell L. Ciochon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. His books include Other Origins: The Search for the Giant Ape in Human Prehistory and The Human Evolution Source Book.