Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Paleolithic provides comprehensive knowledge on Neanderthals who lived throughout the European and Asian continents. The book synthesizes historical information about the study of Middle Paleolithic populations and presents current debates about their genetics, subsistence, technology, social and cognitive behaviors. It focuses on the last phase of Neanderthal settlements and presents the main patterns of modern humans across Europe. Written by international experts on the Middle Paleolithic who have conducted innovative studies in the last three decades, this book explores the implications of interactions between different human species, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and Sapiens.
In addition, the book discusses the diversity and variability of human adaptations and behaviors in the changing climate and environment of the Late Pleistocene, and the relationship between these behaviors, demography and cognitive capabilities.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. xi 7. Foreword - p. xv 8. Preface - p. xvii 9. Cover caption - p. xviii 10. Chapter 1. Updating Neanderthals: Taking stock of more than 160 years of studies - p. 1 11. Chapter 2. The climatic and environmental context of the Late Pleistocene - p. 19 12. Chapter 3. Diet and ecological interactions in the Middle and Late Pleistocene - p. 39 13. Chapter 4. Different species on the horizon: The Denisova hominins - p. 55 14. Chapter 5. Neanderthals: Anatomy, genes, and evolution - p. 71 15. Chapter 6. The Neanderthal brain: Biological and cognitive evolution - p. 89 16. Chapter 7. Selection versus opportunism: A view from Neanderthal subsistence strategies - p. 108 17. Chapter 8. Small animal use by Neanderthals - p. 135 18. Chapter 9. The use of plants by Neanderthals as food, medicine, and raw materials - p. 147 19. Chapter 10. Neanderthal technological variability: A wide-ranging geographical perspective on the final Middle Palaeolithic - p. 163 20. Chapter 11. The organisation of living spaces in Neanderthal campsites - p. 207 21. Chapter 12. Fire among Neanderthals - p. 227 22. Chapter 13. ‘Art’: Neanderthal symbolic graphic behaviour - p. 251 23. Chapter 14. Spiritual and symbolic activities of Neanderthals - p. 261 24. Chapter 15. Beyond European boundaries: Neanderthals in the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus - p. 280 25. Chapter 16. Methodological advances in Neanderthal identification, phylogeny, chronology, mobility, climate, and diet - p. 303 26. The arrival of Homo sapiens in the Near East and Europe - p. 321 27. Afterword - p. 349 28. Index - p. 351
Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Paleolithic provides comprehensive knowledge on Neanderthals who lived throughout the European and Asian continents. The book synthesizes historical information about the study of Middle Paleolithic populations and presents current debates about their genetics, subsistence, technology, social and cognitive behaviors. It focuses on the last phase of Neanderthal settlements and presents the main patterns of modern humans across Europe. Written by international experts on the Middle Paleolithic who have conducted innovative studies in the last three decades, this book explores the implications of interactions between different human species, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and Sapiens.
In addition, the book discusses the diversity and variability of human adaptations and behaviors in the changing climate and environment of the Late Pleistocene, and the relationship between these behaviors, demography and cognitive capabilities.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. xi 7. Foreword - p. xv 8. Preface - p. xvii 9. Cover caption - p. xviii 10. Chapter 1. Updating Neanderthals: Taking stock of more than 160 years of studies - p. 1 11. Chapter 2. The climatic and environmental context of the Late Pleistocene - p. 19 12. Chapter 3. Diet and ecological interactions in the Middle and Late Pleistocene - p. 39 13. Chapter 4. Different species on the horizon: The Denisova hominins - p. 55 14. Chapter 5. Neanderthals: Anatomy, genes, and evolution - p. 71 15. Chapter 6. The Neanderthal brain: Biological and cognitive evolution - p. 89 16. Chapter 7. Selection versus opportunism: A view from Neanderthal subsistence strategies - p. 108 17. Chapter 8. Small animal use by Neanderthals - p. 135 18. Chapter 9. The use of plants by Neanderthals as food, medicine, and raw materials - p. 147 19. Chapter 10. Neanderthal technological variability: A wide-ranging geographical perspective on the final Middle Palaeolithic - p. 163 20. Chapter 11. The organisation of living spaces in Neanderthal campsites - p. 207 21. Chapter 12. Fire among Neanderthals - p. 227 22. Chapter 13. ‘Art’: Neanderthal symbolic graphic behaviour - p. 251 23. Chapter 14. Spiritual and symbolic activities of Neanderthals - p. 261 24. Chapter 15. Beyond European boundaries: Neanderthals in the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus - p. 280 25. Chapter 16. Methodological advances in Neanderthal identification, phylogeny, chronology, mobility, climate, and diet - p. 303 26. The arrival of Homo sapiens in the Near East and Europe - p. 321 27. Afterword - p. 349 28. Index - p. 351
