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The Earliest Europeans : a Year in the Life: Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic /
The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of 'a year in the life': how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, and avai...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Oxbow Books,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of boxes
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Figure acknowledgements
- 1. A seasonal approach
- In the beginning ...
- A seasonal perspective: a Palaeolithic 'just so' story?
- Fundamentals of seasonality
- 2. Lower Palaeolithic Europe
- The Pleistocene world
- Glacial and interglacial cycles
- Long-term Pleistocene change
- The woods and the trees
- Cast of characters
- Nature of the Lower Palaeolithic record
- The earliest occupations of Europe
- Outstanding questions ... and a seasonal approach
- 3 A winter wonderland?
- It's grim in Europe: a winter challenge
- Cold, dark and short days ... everywhere?
- Surviving winter
- Built for the cold?
- A hairy hominin?
- Put the heating on ...
- Clothing, or I can't feel my fingers ...
- Shelters?
- Winter is coming, the deer aren't getting fat ...
- Winter plants?
- Scavenging as a strategy: shovelling revisited ...
- 'Every mile is two in winter ...'
- Conclusion: a winter's tale
- 4. Springtime
- a land awakening
- Spring renewal
- Spring relocations?
- Spring resources: plant and animal foods
- Animals and plants in the diet ... but how?
- European Homo: always a hunter?
- Food, and other stresses?
- Who were the foragers ...?
- Food sharing ... or, where is everyone else?
- Springtime babies?
- Childbirth and demanding infants: energetics and social costs
- Daily living: local spring lives?
- Spring: breathing new life...
- 5. Summertime ... was the living easy?
- Hot days ... and dry days?
- Water ... and wildfires?
- Summer foods
- Long days, not lazy days
- Learning in a Lower Palaeolithic childhood
- Childs' play ...?
- A world beyond the horizon?
- Summer conception: hunting with benefits?
- Long days
- 6. Autumn
- rich in food and colour
- Wild harvests ... and shorter days
- Ruts and nuts
- Autumn migrations and winter in the sun?
- How far do we have to go ...?
- Are we nearly there yet?
- Preparing for winter?
- Other sorts of stockpiling?
- An ability to plan? Preparing clothing...
- An ability to plan? A lithic perspective...
- Autumn: season of mists and mellow fruitfulness?
- 7. A year in a supremely skilled life?
- The hominin year: a seasonal perspective
- Adapting to a seasonal Europe?
- Continuity in a seasonal world
- Coping with seasonal Europe: biology and technology
- How different were H. heidelbergensis and H. antecessor? A seasonal perspective
- A seasonal world: hominins on the edge?
- Benefits of a seasonal perspective
- Appendix A: Key European Lower Palaeolithic sites
- Appendix B: Common names for key plant genus
- Appendix C: Common names for key mammal species
- References