Emergence of Modern Humans
An Archaeological Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 2019
568 pages
978-1-4744-7095-7 (ISBN)
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A book on the emergence of modern humans
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Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- A. Regional Studies
- 1. Social and Ecological Models for the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa
- 2. A Critique of the Consensus View on the Age of Howieson's Poort Assemblages in South Africa
- 3. The Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of the Nile Valley: the Problem of Cultural Transformation
- 4. The Amudian in the Context of the Mugharan Tradition at the Tabun Cave (Mount Carmet), Israel
- 5. A Technological analysis of the Upper Palaelithic Levels (XXV-VI) of Ksar Akil, Lebanaon
- 6. Middle to Upper Palaetihic Transition: the Evidence for the Nile Valley
- 7. The Szeletian and the Stratigraphic Succession in Central Europe and Adjacent Areas: Main Trends, Recents Results, and Problems for Resolution
- 8. Chronological Change in Périgord Lithic Assemblage Diversity
- 9. The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Southwestern France: Interpreting the Lithic Evidence
- 10. The Early Upper Palaeolithic of Southwest Europe: Cro-Magaon Adaptations in the Iberian Peripheries, 40 000- 20 000 BP
- 11. The Transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolothic at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne, France): Technological Economic and Social Aspects
- 12. Peopling Australasia: the 'Coastal Colonization' Hypothesis re-examined
- B General Studies
- 13. Middle Palaeolithic Socio-Economic Formations in Western Eurasia: an Exploratory Survery
- 14. Aspects of Behaviour in the Middle Palaeolithic Functional Analysis of Stone Tools from Southwest France
- 15. A Multiaspectual Approach to the Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe
- 16. From the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic: The Nature of the Transition
- 17. Early Hominid Symbol and Evolution of the Human Capacity
- 18. The Human Cognitive Changes at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: the Evidence of Boker Tachtit
- 19. Symbolic Origins and Transitions in the Palaeolithic
- Author Index
- Site and Localities Index
