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The Neanderthal Legacy : An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe /

The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become...

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Autor principal: Mellars, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Environmental Background to Middle Palaeolithic Occupation; Chapter 3 Stone Tool Technology; Chapter 4 Tool Morphology, Function and Typology; Chapter 5 The Procurement and Distribution of Raw Materials; Chapter 6 Industrial Taxonomy and Chronology; Chapter 7 Middle Palaeolithic Subsistence; Chapter 8 Sites in the Landscape; Chapter 9 The Spatial Organization of Middle Palaeolithic Sites; Chapter 10 The Significance of Industrial Variability; Chapter 11 Neanderthal Society
  • Chapter 12 The Neanderthal MindChapter 13 The Big Transition; References; Index of Sites; General Index