Strangers in a Strange Land?:Intimate sociality and emergent creativity in Middle Palaeolithic Europe
Journal: White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
Year: 2017

Europe in the Middle Palaeolithic would have been an unfamiliar world. The landscapes which we reconstruct for this period seem almost alien - often shrouded in ice, occupied by extinct fauna, such as mammoths and woolly rhinoceros, and moreover by people seen by many as ‘not quite human’. Unlike in later periods such as the Mesolithic (see Warren this volume) analogies between modern foragers and populations in the Middle Palaeolithic, Neanderthals, are rare. Such comparisons have typically bee