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Title Palaeolithic Italy : Advanced studies on early human adaptations in the Apennine peninsula / edited by Valentina Borgia & Emanuela Cristiani
Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (375 pages)
Summary The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to various well-researched regional hotspots in central and western Europe, as a result of historical research bias preventing the application of new research methodologies. Nonetheless, discoveries regarding Neanderthal extinction and behavioural complexity, the dispersal of Anatomically Modern Humans as well as the origin and diffusion of modern technologies and symbolic behaviour in Europe have brought Italy into focus as an ideal region for understanding the evolutionary development of various hominin species that inhabited the continent in the Late Pleistocene. In particular the dynamics of the earliest human peopling of Europe, the reasons and timing of Neanderthals demise and how environmental factors affected human prehistoric behaviour, rates of technological innovation and connectivity of hunter-gatherer groups in Europe. This edited volume aims to contribute to our better understanding of the previous, still open, research questions
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Subject Paleolithic period -- Italy
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy.
Stone implements -- Italy
NATURE -- Fossils.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Paleolithic period
Stone implements
SUBJECT Italy -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068876
Subject Italy
Form Electronic book
Author Borgia, Valentina, editor
Cristiani, Emanuela, editor
ISBN 9789088905858
9088905851