The Lower and Middle Paleolithic
By: edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bar-Yosef, Ofer.; International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.
Series: Series Colloquia ;; 5
Publisher: A.B.A.C.O. Edizioni
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Forlì
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Paleolithic period -- Congresses.; Paleolithic period, Lower -- Congresses.; Hearths, Prehistoric -- Congresses.; Human beings -- Origin -- Congresses.; Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Study of human behaviour in relation to fire in archaeology; Origin of modern man
Notes: English and French.
Includes bibliographical references.
At head of title: International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.
Table of contents: title: Colloquium IX, The study of human behaviour in relation to fire in archaeology : new data and methodologies for understanding prehistoric fire structures. A propos des mythes de vol du feu /; title: Alain Testart; title: Anthracologie, paléoéconogie, homme et milieu -- Jean-Louis Vernet; title: Modes de formation des structures de combustion : approche méthodologique et implications archéologiques -- Julia Wattez; title: La gestion de l'éspace social et l'apport des associations d'éléments de combustion -- Germà Wünsch; title: The study of prehistoric ashes -- Ofer Bar-Yosef and Stephen Weiner; title: L'étude chimique des structures de combustion -- Frédéric Bazile; title: Using numerical models to analyze archaeological simple fire structures -- Juan C. Ferreri and Ramiro J. March; title: Early hominid use of fire : recent approaches and methods for evaluation of the evidence -- Steven R. James; title: Structures de combustion du Moustérien de la Grotte XVI à Cénac-et-Saint Julien, Dordogne, France -- Jean Philippe Rigaud, Jan. F. Simek et Theirry Gé; title: Expérimenter la métallurgie : le lien entre la dynamique thermique et le vestige archéologique -- Philippe Andrieux; title: L'etude des structures de combustion prehistoriques : une approche interdisciplinaire -- Ramiro Javier March -- Colloquium X, The origin of modern man. Some problems in ESR and U-Series chronology of human origin / -- Henry P. Schwarcz; title: GIF laboratory TL dates for some Middle Paleolithic sites -- Norbert Mercier and Hélène Valladas; title: Genetic evidence about the origins of modern humans -- Henry Harpending; title: Why aren't Neandertals modern humans? -- Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari; title: Behavioral perspectives on the origin of modern humans : another look at the African evidence -- Alison S. Brooks; title: Southern Africa in the debate on the origins of modern people -- Hilary John Deacon; title: Archaeological evidence, in particular from Africa, for understanding the origins and spread of modern humans -- John Desmond Clark; title: Modern humans, Neanderthals and the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition in western Asia -- Ofer Bar-Yosef -- European Palaeolithic landscapes, 140,000-30,000 years ago / -- Tjeerd H. van Andel and Chronis Tzedakis; title: Cultural context of the last Neanderthals and early modern humans in central-eastern Europe -- Janusz K. Kozłowski; title: L'émergence du Paléolithique supérieur en Europe occidentale : le rôle du Castelperronien -- Jean-Philippe Rigaud; title: Models for the dispersal of anatomically modern populations across Europe : theoretical and archaeological perspectives -- Paul A. Mellars; title: The appearance of modern humans in Europe : the archaeological evidence from the Mediterranean regions -- Alberto Broglio.