Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor / edited by Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain ; Tania King, Blandford Town Museum, Blandford, Dorset, United Kingdom ; Levon Yepiskoposyan, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia ; Peter Andrews, Scientific and Editorial Supervisor, Natural History Museum. London, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernández-Jalvo, Yolanda, editor.

King, Tania, editor.

Yepiskoposyan, Levon, editor.

Andrews, Peter, 1940- editor.

Series:

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series, 1877-9077

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Geology.

Human evolution.

Paleoecology.

Paleobiology.

Archaeological geology.

Fossil hominids.

Paleolithic period.

Azykh Cave (Azerbaijan).

Paleolithic period--Azerbaijan--Azykh Cave.

Fossil hominids--Azerbaijan--Azykh Cave.

Archaeological geology--Azerbaijan--Azykh Cave.

Paleobiology--Azerbaijan--Azykh Cave.

Paleoecology--Pleistocene.

Paleoecology--Azerbaijan--Azykh Cave.

Paleoecology--Caucasus, South.

Human evolution--Azerbaijan--Azykh Cave.

Human evolution--Caucasus, South.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Pleistocene.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Geology--Azerbaijan--Azykh Cave.

Geology--Caucasus, South.

Pleistocene Geologic Epoch.

Azerbaijan--Azykh Cave.

South Caucasus.

Physical Description:

xvii, 349 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer International Publishing, [2016]

Language Note:

Abstracts also in Russian.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor / Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, Tania King, Levon Yepiskoposyan and Peter Andrews

2. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Azokh Caves, South Caucasus / John Murray, Edward P. Lynch, Patricio Domínguez-Alonso and Milo Barham

3. Geology and Geomorphology of Azokh Caves / Patricio Domínguez-Alonso, Enrique Aracil, José Angel Porres, Peter Andrews, Edward P. Lynch and John Murray

4. Lithic Assemblages Recovered from Azokh 1 / Lena Asryan, Norah Moloney and Andreu Ollé

5. Azokh Cave Hominin Remains / Tania King, Tim Compton, Antonio Rosas, Peter Andrews, Levon Yepiskoposyan and Lena Asryan

6. The New Material of Large Mammals from Azokh and Comments on the Older Collections / Jan Van der Made, Trinidad Torres, José Eugenio Ortiz, Laura Moreno-Pérez and Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo

7. Rodents, Lagomorphs and Insectivores from Azokh Cave / Simon A. Parfit

8. Bats from Azokh Caves / Paloma Sevilla

9. Amphibians and Squamate Reptiles from Azokh 1 / Hugues-Alexandre Blain

10. Taphonomy and Site Formation of Azokh 1 / M. Dolores Marin-Montfort, Isabel Cáceres, Peter Andrews, Ana C. Pinto-Llona and Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo

11. Bone Diagenesis at Azokh Caves / Colin I. Smith, Marisol Faraldos and Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo

12. Coprolites, Paleogenomics and Bone Content Analysis / E. Andrew Bennett, Olivier Gorgé, Thierry Grange, Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo and Eva-Maria Geigl

13. Palaeoenvironmental Context of Coprolites and Plant Microfossils from Unit II, Azokh 1 / Louis Scott, Lloyd Rossouw, Carlos Cordova and Jan Risberg

14. Charcoal Remains from Azokh 1 Cave: Preliminary Results / Ethel Allué

15. Paleoecology of Azokh 1 / Peter Andrews, Sylvia Hixson Andrews, Tania King, Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo and Manuel Nieto-Díaz

Appendix: Dating Methods Applied to Azokh Cave Sites / Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, Peter Ditchfield, Rainer Grün, Wendy Lees, Maxime Aubert, Trinidad Torres, José Eugenio Ortiz, Arantxa Díaz Bautista and Robyn Pickering.

Notes:

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319249223

3319249223

OCLC:

957771078