| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 386 pages) : illustrations, color portraits |
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Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology |
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Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Neanderthals and Emergent Palaeoanthropology 50 Years Ago / F. Clark Howell -- 2. One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Discoveries: Continuity and Discontinuity / Silvana Condemi -- 3. Genus Homo: Origin, Speciation and Dispersal / Thorolf Hardt -- 4. Before the Neanderthals: Hominid Evolution in Middle Pleistocene Europe / Ian Tattersall -- 5. Earliest European Human Peopling After the Recent Discoveries: Early Neanderthals or Different Lineages? / Francesco Mallegni -- 6. Gran Dolina-TD6 Human Fossil Remains and the Origin of Neanderthals / Susana Sarmiento -- 7. Hominid Fossils from China Contemporaneous with the Neanderthals and Some Related Studies / Xiujie Wu -- 8. Behavioral and Cultural Origins of Neanderthals: A Levantine Perspective / Naama Goren-Inbar -- 9. Discontinuities in the Faunal Assemblages and Early Human Populations of Central and Western Europe During the Middle and Late Pleistocene / Wighart von Koenigswald -- 10. Neanderthal Geographical and Chronological Variation / Maria Dolores Garralda -- 11. Preliminary Approach to the Neanderthal Speciation by Distance Hypothesis: A View from the Shoulder Complex / Jean-Luc Voisin -- 12. Facts and Ideas in Paleolithic Growth Studies (Paleoauxology) / Anne-Marie Tillier -- 13. Dental Development and Age at Death of a Middle Paleolithic Juvenile Hominin from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan / Jean-Jacques Hublin -- 14. Computerized Reconstruction of Prenatal Growth Trajectories in the Dentition: Implications for the Taxonomic Status of Neandertals / Yankel Gabet -- 15. Endostructural Characterisation of the Regourdou 1 Neanderthal Proximal Arm: Bilateral Asymmetry and Handedness / Bernard Vandermeersch -- 16. Three-Dimensional Look at the Neanderthal Mandible / Elisabeth Nicholson Lopez -- 17. Integration and Homology of "Chignon" and "Hemibun" Morphology / Katerina Harvati -- 18. Virtual Synthesis of the Skull in Neanderthals by FESS / Ulrich Witzel -- 19. Neandertal mtDNA from a Late Pleistocene Human Mandible from the Cova del Gegant (Spain) / Anders Gotherstrom -- 20. Towards Neanderthal Paleogenomics / Carles Lalueza Fox -- 21. Twelve Years of Neandertal Genetic Discoveries: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges / Catherine Hanni -- 22. Radiocarbon Dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: The Demise of the Last Neanderthals and the First Appearance of Anatomically Modern Humans in Europe / Bernhard Weninger -- 23. Archaeological, Paleontological and Genomic Perspectives on Late European Neandertals at Vindija Cave, Croatia / Fred H. Smith -- 24. Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans in Europe, Population Dynamics and Paleobiology / Erik Trinkaus -- 25. Aliens from Outer Time? Why the "Human Revolution" Is Wrong, and Where Do We Go from Here? / Joao Zilhao -- 26. Neandertals and the Roots of Human Recency / Rachel Caspari -- 27. Epilogue: 150 Years of Neanderthal Research -- A Hopeless Situation but Not Serious / Gerd-Christian Weniger |
| Summary |
Since the Western world first became aware of the existence of Neanderthals, this Pleistocene human has been a regular focus of interest among specialists and also among the general public. In fact, we know far more about Neanderthals than we do about any other extinct human population. Furthermore, over the past 150 years no other palaeospecies has been such a constant source of discussion and fierce debate among palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists. This book presents the status of our knowledge as well as the methods and techniques used to study this extinct population and it suggests perspectives for future research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Neanderthals -- Congresses
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Paleobiology -- Congresses
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Paleoanthropology -- Congresses
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Neanderthals.
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Neanderthals
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Homo neanderthalensis (extinct species)
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NATURE -- Fossils.
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Neanderthals
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Paleoanthropology
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Paleobiology
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Condemi, Silvana.
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Weniger, Gerd-Christian.
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| ISBN |
9789400704923 |
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9400704925 |
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