Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling of Europe [electronic resource] : One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study /
150 Years of Neanderthal Discoveries(2006 :Bonn, Germany)
Condemi, Silvana.editor.
Weniger, Gerd-Christian.editor.
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.
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""Continuity and Discontinuityin the Peopling of Europe""; ""Conference Photos""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Chapter 1 Neanderthals and Emergent Palaeoanthropology 50 Y ears Ago1""; ""Chapter 2 One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Discoveries: Continuity and Discontinuity""; ""Chapter 3 The Genus Homo: Origin, Speciation and Dispersal""; ""Chapter 4: Before the Neanderthals: Hominid Evolution in Middle Pleistocene Europe""; ""Chapter 5 The Earliest European Human Peopling After the Recent Discoveries: Early Neanderthals or Different Lineages?""
""Chapter 6: The Gran Dolina-TD6 Human Fossil Remains and the Origin of Neanderthals""""Chapter 7: The Hominid Fossils from China Contemporaneous with the Neanderthals and Some Related Studies""; ""Chapter 8: Behavioral and Cultural Origins of Neanderthals: A Levantine Perspective""; ""Chapter 9: Discontinuities in the Faunal Assemblages and Early Human Populations of Central and Western Europe During the Middle and Late Pleistocene ""; ""Chapter 10: Neanderthal Geographical and Chronological Variation""
""Chapter 11 A Preliminary Approach to the Neanderthal Speciation by Distance Hypothesis: A View from the Shoulder Complex""""Chapter 12: Facts and Ideas in Paleolithic Growth Studies (Paleoauxology)""; ""Chapter 13 Dental Development and Age at Death of a Middle Paleolithic Juvenile Hominin from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan""; ""Chapter 14 Computerized Reconstruction of Prenatal Growth Trajectories in the Dentition: Implications for the Taxonomic Status of Neandertals ""
""Chapter 15: Endostructural Characterisation of the Regourdou 1 Neanderthal Proximal Arm: Bilateral Asymmetry and Handedness""""Chapter 16: A Three-Dimensional Look at the Neanderthal Mandible""; ""Chapter 17 Integration and Homology of â€œChignonâ€? and â€œHemibunâ€? Morphology""; ""Chapter 18  Virtual Synthesis of the Skull in Neanderthals by FESS""; ""Chapter 19 Neandertal mtDNA from a Late Pleistocene Human Mandible from the Cova del Gegant (Spain)""; ""Chapter 20  Towards Neanderthal Paleogenomics""
""Chapter 21 Twelve Years of Neandertal Genetic Discoveries: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges""""Chapter 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 ""; ""Chapter 23 Archaeological, Paleontological and Genomic Perspectives on Late European Neandertals at Vindija Cave, Croatia""; ""Chapter 24  Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans in Europe, Population Dynamics and Paleobiology""
""Chapter 25: Aliens from Outer Time? Why the â€œHuman Revolutionâ€? Is Wrong, and Where Do We Go from Here?""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Anthropology.
Archaeology.
Evolutionary biology.
Paleontology .
Anthropology.
Archaeology.
Evolutionary Biology.
Paleontology.
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology