Cro-Magnon : : The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe / / / Trenton W. Holliday.

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge of them comes fr...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Discovery
  • 2. Archaeology of the Ancients
  • 3. The Abel to Our Cain? Homo neanderthalensis
  • 4. Fossil and Recent Homo sapiens
  • 5. A Paleontological Perspective on Modern Human Origins
  • 6. The Genetics of Modern Human Origins
  • 7. Is There Such a Thing as Modern Human Behavior?
  • 8. Neandertal and Cro-Magnon Interactions in Europe
  • 9. Bioanthropology of the Cro-Magnons
  • 10. Slings and Arrows
  • 11. Cro-Magnon Art
  • 12. Cold Comfort
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index