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Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates ReviewXXXXX"[This book deals with] the tales of four ordinary people--four hominins who lived long before recorded history. Although not long ago we would have called these four relatives of ours "hominids," researchers recently began calling humans and their ancestors by the more precise term "hominin." Join those researchers and archaeologists, along with scores of scientists in the discovery and recovery of...four hominins. Find out how scientists have expanded on what was learned in the field during the dig and what they've been able to deduce from each set of remains in the laboratory. Take a stand on the debates those deductions ignited. These three Ds in archaeology [and generally in science as a whole]--discovery, deductions, and debates--help scientists develop a picture of how people lived in the past."
The above comes from the introduction of this clear, concise, scientifically-oriented, and extremely interesting book by Peter Robertshaw and Jill Rubalcaba. Dr. Robertshaw is an archaeologist, chair of the Department of Anthropology at California State University, and an author. Rubalcaba is a mathematician, engineer, teacher, and author.
The four hominins (meaning humans or human ancestors) alluded to in the above quotation are:
(1) Turkana Boy: the name given to the almost complete 1.6 million year old skeleton of a Homo erectus boy found in Kenya in 1984. (Homo erectus was the first hominin species to leave Africa.)
(2) Lapedo Child: name given to the skeleton of a four year old child who was buried 25,000 years ago in the Lapedo Valley in Portugal and found in 1998.
(3) Kennewick Man: the name given to the skeleton of a 9,000 year old modern human that was found in 1996 on the bank of the Columbia River in Washington state.
(4) Iceman: the well-preserved 5,300 year old modern human corpse that was found in the Alps of Italy in 1991.
This book is extremely well-written. It is not too technical and I found it very easy to follow. Any words that are difficult to understand are defined in a helpful glossary.
Some of the scientists you will meet are anthropologists, archaeologists, archaeozoologists, bioanthropologists, botanists, geoarcheologists, geneticists, linguists, paleoanthropologists, paleobotanists, and paleopathologists.
There are beautiful coloured photographs peppered throughout this book. The photograph on this book's front cover (displayed above by Amazon) is the skull of Kennewick Man.
Finally, apparently this book is classified as "juvenile literature." I don't like this term because it implies that this book is somehow dumbed down. Nothing could be further from the truth. This book, in my opinion, is for anybody interested in archaeology and anthropology in particular and science & how it works in general.
In conclusion, this is an amazing book that details the discovery, scientific deductions, and scientific debates of four hominins!!
(first published 2010: introduction; 4 chapters; conclusion; main narrative 166 pages; further reading and source notes; time line; glossary; hominins and friends; bibliography; index)
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