(Note: These readings are provided only as a selection of possible further reading on some of the subjects discussed in the text, in lecture, and in sections. They are by no means required for the course, nor do we by any means expect you to use them in any assignments. If you would like to pursue any of these, ask your Teaching Fellow -- we have many of these readings on reserve.)
 
 

Videos:

Leakey video
 

Other works by Richard Leakey

Leakey, Richard E. The origin of humankind, 1994.

Leakey, Richard E. The Sixth Extinction 199?
 

Other works on hominid evolution

Landau, Misia, "Human Evolution as Narrative" in American Scientist vol. 72.

Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (Richard Leakey’s father). Unveiling man's origins; ten decades of thought about human evolution, 1969.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever since Darwin; reflections in Natural History, 1977, New York.

Foley, Robert. Man, Volume# 23, 1998

Johanson, Donald C. Ancestors : in search of human origins. 1994, New York

Johanson, Donald C. Lucy, the beginnings of humankind. 1982. New York.

Johanson, Donald C. Journey from the dawn : life with the world's first family, 1990, New York.

Mellars, Paul (ed). The Emergence of modern humans : an archaeological perspective, 1990.
 

General works on Prehistory and Paleoarchaeology

Klein, Richard, Journal ofWorld Prehistory, Volume# 9 page 167-98

Tattersall, Ian, Palaeoanthropology: The Last Half-Century, in Evolutionary Anthropology Volume# 9 (2000).
 

Discussion of the role of culture in human evolution

Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures New York 1973, chapter 2, "The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of Man"
 

Feminist approaches to archaeology

Conkey and Spector, "Archaeology and the study of Gender" in Advances in Arch. Method and Theory vol. 7 (1984).

Fedigan, Linda Marie, "The Changing Role of Women in Models of Human Evolution, in Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 1986. 15: 25-66.

Nelson, Gender in Archaeology (1997); chap. 3: "Interpreting Gender in the Past", Walnut Creek; London; New Delhi: Altamira Press.