Emergence of Modern Humans : : An Archaeological Perspective / / Paul Mellars.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Mellars, Paul,
• MitwirkendeR: Allsworth-Jones, P.,; Ambrose, Stanley H,; Anderson-Gerfaud, Patricia,; Bergman, C. A.,; Bowdler, Sandra,; Farizy, Catherine,; Guy Straus, Lawrence,; Jelinek, Arthur J,; Klein, Sheldon,; Kozlowski, Janusz K.,; Lecron Foster, Mary,; Lorenz, Karl G.,; Marks, Anthony E,; Marshack, Alexander,; Mellars, Paul,; Ohnuma, K.,; Otte, Marcel,; Parkington, John,; Price, Heather A.,; Reynolds, T. E. G.,; Rolland, Nicolas,; Simek, Jan F.,; Van Peer, Philip,; Vermeersch, Pierre M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.)

A book on the emergence of modern humans

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Near East and the Nile Valley: the Problem of Cultural Transformations -- 4: The Amudian in the Context of the Mugharan Tradition at the Tabun Cave (Mount Carmel), Israel -- 5: A Technological Analysis ofthe Upper Palaeolithic Levels (XXV-VI) of Ksar Akil, Lebanon -- 6: Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: the Evidence for the Nile Valley -- 7: The Szeletian and the Stratigraphic Succession in Central Europe and Adjacent Areas: Main Trends, Recent Results, and Problems for Resolution -- 8: Chronological Change in Perigord 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-Magnon Adaptations in the Iberian Peripheries, 40 000 - 20 000 BP -- 11: The Transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic 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 Fonnations in Western Eurasia: an Exploratory Survey -- 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 Palaeolithic 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: Human Cognitive Changes at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: the Evidence of Boker Tachtit -- 19: Symbolic Origins and Transitions in the Palaeolithic -- Index of Authors -- Index of Sites and Locations