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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (568 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748601301
  • 9781474470957
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: A book on the emergence of modern humans
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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

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A book on the emergence of modern humans

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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