
The Wisdom of Bones
#1260 of 3,809 books · #110 in Science & Technology
Won the Royal Society Science Book Prize (1997).
A groundbreaking book concerning the excavation of Nariokotome Boy, which asserts, among other things, that Homo Erectus lacked language.
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- Royal Society Science Book PrizeWon(1997)
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