Palaeolithic pioneers : behaviour, abilities, and activity of early Homo in European landscapes around the western Mediterranean basin ~1.3-0.05 Ma. / Michael J. Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Michael J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolithic period--Mediterranean Region.

Paleolithic period.

Prehistoric peoples--Europe.

Prehistoric peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Archaeopress, [2017]

Summary:

Archaic humans were present for over a million years in western Mediterranean Europe where they left very many traces of their early stone-age activities and behaviour, and sometimes even human skeletal remains. This book evaluates archaeological findings about their life-ways at many important sites in Italy, southern France, and Spain.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Significant Matters of Quaternary Early Human Palaeobiology

4. Early Homo: Life-History, Stone artifacts, Stone tools, Dispersal

5. Evidence from southern Europe before the Jaramillo sub-chron

6. Humans in southwestern Europe between the Jatamillo sub-chron and the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary

7. After the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary: the Early Middle Pleistocene in western Mediterranean Europe

8. The later Middle Pleistocene and onset of the early Late Pleistocene in western Mediterranean Europe

9. Problems of MIS-4 and MIS-3

10. Whatever happened to...?.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781784916213

1784916218

OCLC:

1256258125