Exploring the development of classically Neanderthal behaviours in Europe between MIS 9-6, this book focuses on the British record, especially stone tools as durable residues of human action.
It is now widely accepted that by the later Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthals possessed a wide range of social and practical skills. More recently, researchers have become interested in how these skills actually emerged; in effect, the challenge now is to document the process by …
Thinking about technological evolution -- Parts and wholes -- Raw material economies -- Artifacts as information -- Identifying design -- Diversity -- Artifact complexity -- Synthesis- trends, tendencies and entrenchment. "The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a no…
"The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on the long-term development of Paleolithic technologies and their makers, one that is more in keeping with contemporary Darwinian thinking about human evolution. Members of the human lineage have been produ…
"The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on the long-term development of Paleolithic technologies and their makers, one that is more in keeping with contemporary Darwinian thinking about human evolution. Members of the human lineage have been produ…
"The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on the long-term development of Paleolithic technologies and their makers, one that is more in keeping with contemporary Darwinian thinking about human evolution. Members of the human lineage have been produ…
Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic
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Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic
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These twenty-three papers focus on recent research into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Levant, a murky period of human history (ca 45,000 to 20,000 years ago) during which modern patterns of human behaviour and communication became the norm. The vast majority of archaeological da…