Exploring the ancient origins of our social lives today, it combines the insights of evolutionary psychology with the evidence from the latest archaeological discoveries and fossil finds.

Clive Gamble is a British archaeologist and anthropologist, and Professor of Archaeology at Southampton University. He has been described as the 'UK's foremost archaeologist investigating our earliest ancestors'.

Preface . 1. Psychology Meets Archaeology . 2. What It Means to Be Social . 3. Ancient Social Lives . 4. Ancestors With Small Brains . 5. Building the Human Niche: Three Crucial Skills . 6. Ancestors with Large Brains . 7. Living in Big Societies