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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scott, Beccy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford, UK : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; The David Brown Book Company, [2011]
Subjects:
Paleolithic period > Great Britain.
Tools, Prehistoric > Great Britain.
Neanderthals > Great Britain.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Great Britain.
Outils préhistoriques > Grande-Bretagne.
Homme de Néanderthal > Grande-Bretagne.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Grande-Bretagne.
NATURE > Fossils.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Neanderthals
Paleolithic period
Tools, Prehistoric
Great Britain > Antiquities.
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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