The Geography of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean
Bibliographic Collection:
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Pilbeam, David R.
Year of Publication: 2000
Series Title: Peabody Museum Bulletin
Volume: 8
Number of Pages: 197
Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
City: Cambridge
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 0873659589
Keywords: Human beings, Land settlement patterns, Neanderthals., Paleolithic period Europe, Paleolithic period Mediterranean Region, Prehistoric Europe
Abstract:
During the Middle Paleolithic, various populations ancestral to modern Hone sapiens inhabited Africa, while Europe was homeland to the Neandertals. Recent archaeological investigations have provided data showing that the abrupt transition from the Middle to the Upper Neolithic, during which these populations met and interacted, was a fast-moving period of change for both groups. In this volume, the expansion of modern humans and their impact on the populations of Neandertals in Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa is discussed in depth, with particular focus on the lithic industries of the late Middle and early Upper Paleolithic.
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