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Becoming Neanderthals : the earlier British Middle Palaeolithic /

It is now widely accepted that by the later Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthals possessed a wide range of social and practical skills. More recently, researchers have become interested in how these skills actually emerged; in effect, the challenge now is to document the process by which Middle Pleistoc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, Beccy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; The David Brown Book Company, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical background; previous and current research frameworks
  • The earliest Middle Palaeolithic of the Thames; sites of the Lynch Hill/Corbets Tey Terrace (MIS 10-9-8)
  • Neanderthals of southern Britain; sites of the Taplow/Mucking Terrace of the Thames (MIS 8-7-6) and deposits of equivalent date
  • The development of Neanderthal behaviours in early Middle Palaeolithic Europe
  • Changing technological practice and the exploitation of Levallois technology
  • The Middle Palaeolithic settlement history of the British Isles
  • Living on the edge; resettling British Neanderthals in Middle Palaeolithic Europe
  • Bibliography with manuscript sources
  • Appendix: Flint analysis methodology.