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Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology [electronic resource] :One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study / edited by Nicholas J. Conard, Jürgen Richter.

by Conard, Nicholas J [editor.]; Richter, Jürgen [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology: 19Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.Description: XV, 293p. online resource.ISBN: 9789400704152.Subject(s): Social sciences | Environmental sciences | Regional planning | Anthropology | Archaeology | Social Sciences | Archaeology | Anthropology | Regional and Cultural Studies | Environment, generalDDC classification: 930.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Part i the chronological framework: long time sequences -- part ii neanderthal subsistence and raw material procurement -- part iii neanderthal cognition and technological knowledge -- part iv neanderthal social organization and land use -- part v cultural adaptation amont the last neanderthals.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Neanderthal fossils gave reason for an international and interdisciplinary symposium in Bonn/Germany. The present book arose from this congress and focuses on multiple aspects of archaeological investigation on Neanderthal lifeways. In-depth studies of top-ranking scientists provide a detailed and comprehensive survey of contemporary research on our Pleistocene relatives. Examinations and debates are embedded in a variety of regions and time frames. Chronology, subsistence, land use, and cultural adaptations among late Neanderthals form the major trajectories of the book. The wide range of approaches involved, leads to an increasing understanding of the facets of and the variability of Neanderthal behavioural patterns.   The present volume is complemented by a paleontologically orientated publication of the same congress (edited by Gerd-Christian Weniger and Silvana Condemi).
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Part i the chronological framework: long time sequences -- part ii neanderthal subsistence and raw material procurement -- part iii neanderthal cognition and technological knowledge -- part iv neanderthal social organization and land use -- part v cultural adaptation amont the last neanderthals.

The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Neanderthal fossils gave reason for an international and interdisciplinary symposium in Bonn/Germany. The present book arose from this congress and focuses on multiple aspects of archaeological investigation on Neanderthal lifeways. In-depth studies of top-ranking scientists provide a detailed and comprehensive survey of contemporary research on our Pleistocene relatives. Examinations and debates are embedded in a variety of regions and time frames. Chronology, subsistence, land use, and cultural adaptations among late Neanderthals form the major trajectories of the book. The wide range of approaches involved, leads to an increasing understanding of the facets of and the variability of Neanderthal behavioural patterns.   The present volume is complemented by a paleontologically orientated publication of the same congress (edited by Gerd-Christian Weniger and Silvana Condemi).

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