The geography of Neandertals and modern humans in Europe and the greater Mediterranean / Ofer Bar-Yosef and David Pilbeam, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bar-Yosef, Ofer.

Pilbeam, David R.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Series:

Peabody Museum bulletin ; 8.

Peabody Museum bulletin ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolithic period--Europe--Congresses.

Paleolithic period.

Neanderthals.

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings--Origin.

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.

Europe.

Paleolithic period--Mediterranean Region--Congresses.

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Europe--Congresses.

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Mediterranean Region--Congresses.

Human beings--Origin--Congresses.

Human beings.

Human beings--Migrations--Congresses.

Neanderthals--Migrations--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2000.

Summary:

During the Middle Paleolithic, various populations ancestral to modern Hone sapiens inhabited Africa, while Europe was homeland to the Neandertals. Recent archaeological investigations have provided data showing that the abrupt transition from the Middle to the Upper Neolithic, during which these populations met and interacted, was a fast-moving period of change for both groups. In this volume, the expansion of modern humans and their impact on the populations of Neandertals in Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa is discussed in depth, with particular focus on the lithic industries of the late Middle and early Upper Paleolithic.

Contents:

A geographic perspective on the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Iberian Peninsula / Eduald Carbonell ... [et al.]

The archaeological records of the Neandertal-modern human transition in France / Paul Mellars

The Late Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic in Italy / Steven L. Kuhn and Amilcare Bietti

The problem of cultural continuity between the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Central and Eastern Europe / Janusz K. Kozlowski

The Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic in Southwest Asia and neighboring regions / Ofer Bar-Yosef

Modern-nonmodern hominid interactions : a Mediterranean perspective / Jean-Jacques Hublin

Afterword / David Pilbeam and Ofer Bar-Yosef.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a seminar at the Peabody Museum on Dec. 14-16, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0873659589

OCLC:

45411688