(Hardback)

Kinship and Human Evolution offers an exciting new explanation of how Homo became sapiens or cultured beings capable of symbolic thought. This book argues that the key to understanding human evolution and culture lies in kinship-based exchange networks, which were part of an adaptive response to the harsh environment during the last ice age.

(Hardback)

In The Social and Cultural Order of Ancient Egypt, Steen Bergendorff argues that ancient Egyptian culture can only be understood in relation to its reproductive condition and that ancient Egypt must be seen as part of a larger regional trade network including the Levant and Mesopotamia in the west and Nubia and Africa to the south.

(Paperback)

Kinship and Human Evolution offers an exciting new explanation of how Homo became sapiens or cultured beings capable of symbolic thought. This book argues that the key to understanding human evolution and culture lies in kinship-based exchange networks, which were part of an adaptive response to the harsh environment during the last ice age.