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Updating Neanderthals
Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic
Francesca Romagnoli,Florent Rivals,Stefano Benazzi
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Updating Neanderthals
Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic
Francesca Romagnoli,Florent Rivals,Stefano Benazzi
About This Book
Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Paleolithic provides comprehensive knowledge on Neanderthals who lived throughout the European and Asian continents. The book synthesizes historical information about the study of Middle Paleolithic populations and presents current debates about their genetics, subsistence, technology, social and cognitive behaviors. It focuses on the last phase of Neanderthal settlements and presents the main patterns of modern humans across Europe. Written by international experts on the Middle Paleolithic who have conducted innovative studies in the last three decades, this book explores the implications of interactions between different human species, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and Sapiens.
In addition, the book discusses the diversity and variability of human adaptations and behaviors in the changing climate and environment of the Late Pleistocene, and the relationship between these behaviors, demography and cognitive capabilities.
- Offers a comprehensive update on the variability and diversity of Neanderthal behaviors during the Late Pleistocene
- Presents an interdisciplinary reconstruction of Neanderthals by assessing archaeology, paleontology, paleoecology, anthropology, genetics and cognition
- Reviews the reliability of archaeological data and the theoretical and methodological advances of the last 30 years
- Discusses the most debated Neanderthal themes, such as demography, diet, socio-economy and art
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Cover caption
- Chapter 1: Updating Neanderthals: Taking stock of more than 160Â years of studies
- Chapter 2: The climatic and environmental context of the Late Pleistocene
- Chapter 3: Diet and ecological interactions in the Middle and Late Pleistocene
- Chapter 4: Different species on the horizon: The Denisova hominins
- Chapter 5: Neanderthals: Anatomy, genes, and evolution
- Chapter 6: The Neanderthal brain: Biological and cognitive evolution
- Chapter 7: Selection versus opportunism: A view from Neanderthal subsistence strategies
- Chapter 8: Small animal use by Neanderthals
- Chapter 9: The use of plants by Neanderthals as food, medicine, and raw materials
- Chapter 10: Neanderthal technological variability: A wide-ranging geographical perspective on the final Middle Palaeolithic
- Chapter 11: The organisation of living spaces in Neanderthal campsites
- Chapter 12: Fire among Neanderthals
- Chapter 13: âArtâ: Neanderthal symbolic graphic behaviour
- Chapter 14: Spiritual and symbolic activities of Neanderthals
- Chapter 15: Beyond European boundaries: Neanderthals in the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus
- Chapter 16: Methodological advances in Neanderthal identification, phylogeny, chronology, mobility, climate, and diet
- Chapter 17: The arrival of Homo sapiens in the Near East and Europe
- AfterwordâFrom a homogeneous population to a great diversity: Discussing perspectives on Middle Palaeolithic studies for the coming years
- Index