Updating Neanderthals
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Updating Neanderthals

Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic

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eBook - ePub

Updating Neanderthals

Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic

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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Yes, you can access Updating Neanderthals by Francesca Romagnoli,Florent Rivals,Stefano Benazzi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technik & Maschinenbau & Zoologie. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780128214282
eBook ISBN
9780128214299
Topic
Technik & Maschinenbau
Subtopic
Zoologie

Table of contents

  1. Title of Book
  2. Cover image
  3. Title page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Copyright
  6. Contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Cover caption
  10. Chapter 1 Updating Neanderthals: Taking stock of more than 160 years of studies
  11. Chapter 2 The climatic and environmental context of the Late Pleistocene
  12. Chapter 3 Diet and ecological interactions in the Middle and Late Pleistocene
  13. Chapter 4 Different species on the horizon: The Denisova hominins
  14. Chapter 5 Neanderthals: Anatomy, genes, and evolution
  15. Chapter 6 The Neanderthal brain: Biological and cognitive evolution
  16. Chapter 7 Selection versus opportunism: A view from Neanderthal subsistence strategies
  17. Chapter 8 Small animal use by Neanderthals
  18. Chapter 9 The use of plants by Neanderthals as food, medicine, and raw materials
  19. Chapter 10 Neanderthal technological variability: A wide-ranging geographical perspective on the final Middle Palaeolithic
  20. Chapter 11 The organisation of living spaces in Neanderthal campsites
  21. Chapter 12 Fire among Neanderthals
  22. Chapter 13 ‘Art’: Neanderthal symbolic graphic behaviour
  23. Chapter 14 Spiritual and symbolic activities of Neanderthals
  24. Chapter 15 Beyond European boundaries: Neanderthals in the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus
  25. Chapter 16 Methodological advances in Neanderthal identification, phylogeny, chronology, mobility, climate, and diet
  26. Chapter 17 The arrival of Homo sapiens in the Near East and Europe
  27. Afterword
  28. Index