Abstract:One hundred and sixty years ago, fossilized human remains were discovered in the Neander valley of north-west Germany. 1 Twenty-five years ago, Misia Landau published Narratives of Human Evolution, her structural analysis of human origin accounts. 2 Separating these events were the discoveries of thousands more hominid fossils and hundreds of thousands more stone tools. The interpretation of these remains posed a series of conceptual and methodological challenges for scholars, as they became focal points of in… Show more
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