Transitions Before the Transition (eBook, PDF)

Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age
Redaktion: Hovers, Erella; Kuhn, Steven

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Produktbeschreibung

Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. This book assembles researchers working in Eurasia and Africa to discuss the archaeological record of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age. Contributions query and challenge some current notions about the tempo and mode of cultural evolution, and about the processes that underlie the emergence of modern behavior. Coming to diverse conclusions, the papers in this volume open up new avenues to thinking about this crucial interval in human evolutionary history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387246611
• Artikelnr.: 37286434

Autorenporträt

Discipline codes:SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL:Anthropology/ArchaeometrySOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL:Archaeology   Transitions Before the TransitionEvolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Edited byErella Hovers Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Steven Kuhn University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA This title explores questions surrounding the origins of modern behavior, and the relationships between anatomical and behavioral changes that occurred during the past 200,000 years. It assembles researchers working in Eurasia and Africa to discuss what was happening during the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age (the "Transition"); i.e. the era prior to or during the appearance of anatomically modern humans in their geographic areas. INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHAEOLOGY Hard cover, ISBN 0-387-24658-4December 2005, 246 pp. Promo Class: BProfit Centre: P150 Krauss (430)

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction.- On Naming Things.- Observations on Systematics in Paleolithic Archaeology.- Testing Retouched Flake Tool Standardization During the Middle Paleolithic.- Diversity of Lithic Production Systems During the Middle Paleolithic in France.- Trajectories of Change in the Middle Paleolithic of Italy.- Stasis and Change During the Crimean Middle Paleolithic.- Monospecific or Species-Dominated Faunal Assemblages During the Middle Paleolithic in Europe.- Middle Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Levant.- Housekeeping, Neandertal-Style.- The Middle Paleolithic of the Levant.- Middle Paleolithic Subsistence Ecology in the Mediterranean Region.- Projectile Technologies of the African MSA.- From Acheulean to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya.- The Use of Space in the Late Middle Stone Age of Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa.- "Now You See it, Now You Don't"-Modern Human Behavior in the Middle Paleolithic.- Between Observations and Models.