Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology: One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study

ISBN-13: 9789400704145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 293 str.

Nicholas J. Conard; Jurgen Richter

Opis

The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Neanderthal fossils gave reason for an international and interdisciplinary symposium in Bonn/Germany. The present book arose from this congress and focuses on multiple aspects of archaeological investigation on Neanderthal lifeways. In-depth studies of top-ranking scientists provide a detailed and comprehensive survey of contemporary research on our Pleistocene relatives. Examinations and debates are embedded in a variety of regions and time frames. Chronology, subsistence, land use, and cultural adaptations among late Neanderthals form the major trajectories of the book. The wide range of approaches involved, leads to an increasing understanding of the facets of and the variability of Neanderthal behavioural patterns.The present volume is complemented by a paleontologically orientated publication of the same congress (edited by Gerd-Christian Weniger and Silvana Condemi)."

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PART  I   The Chronological Framework: Long Time Sequences

 

1. When Did the Middle Paleolithic Begin?

Jürgen Richter

 

2. Neanderthals and Monkeys in the Würmian of Central Europe – the Middle Paleolithic Site of Hunas, Southern Germany

W. Rosendahl, D. Ambros, B. Hilpert, U. Hambach, K.W. Alt, M. Knipping, L. Reisch, and B. Kaulich† 

 

3. Neanderthals in the Cold: Middle Paleolithic Sites from the Open-Cast Mine of Garzweiler, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)

Thorsten Uthmeier, Holger Kels, Wolfgang Schirmer, and Utz Böhner

 

4. Neanderthal Occupation in the Verdon Valley (Haute-Provence, Southeastern France)

J. Gagnepain and C. Gaillard

 

5. Dating Small Heated Flint Artifacts: A New Thermoluminescence Technique

Daniel Richter

 

PART II   Neanderthal Subsistence and Raw Material Procurement

 

6. On Neanderthal Subsistence in Last Interglacial Forested Environments in Northern Europe

S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser and W. Roebroeks

 

7. Diet and Ecology of Neanderthals – Implications from C and N Isotopes

H. Bocherens

 

8. Management of Paleoenvironmental Resources and Raw Materials Exploitation at the Middle Paleolithic Site of Oscurusciuto (Ginosa, Southern Italy): Units 1 and 4

P. Boscato, P. Gambassini, F. Ranaldo, and A. Ronchitelli 

 

PART III  Neanderthal Cognition and Technological Knowledge

 

9. Neanderthal Technoeconomics. An Assessment and Suggestions for Future Developments

S.L. Kuhn

 

10. Blade Production in the Early Phase of the Middle Paleolithic at Bapaume-les Osiers (Pas-de-Calais, France)

H. Koehler

 

11. The Lithic Production System of the Middle Paleolithic Settlement of Le Fond des Blanchards at Gron (Yonne, France)

V. Lhomme, E. Nicoud, M. Pagli, A. Coudenneau, and R. Rocca

 

12. Technological Analysis of the Bifacial Tools from La Micoque and its Implications

G. Rosendahl

 

13. Handedness in Neanderthals

N.T. Uomini

 

PART IV Neanderthal social organization and land use

 

14. The Social and Material Life of Neanderthals

C. Gamble

 

15. Stability in the Intermittence

A. Lourdeau

 

16. Territorial Mobility of Neanderthal Groups - a Case Study from Level M of Abric Romaní (Capellades, Barcelona, Spain)

M.C. Fernández-Laso, M.G. Chacón Navarro, M.D. García-Antón, and F. Rivals

 

17.  Level G of Las Fuentes de San Cristóbal (Southern Pyrenees, Spain)

M.D. García-Antón, L. Menéndez Granda, and M.G. Chacón Navarro

 

PART V  Cultural Adaptation among the Last Neanderthals

 

18. The Demise of the Neanderthal Cultural Niche and the Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern Germany

N.J. Conard

 

19. Level 14 of Bajondillo Cave and the End of the Middle Paleolithic in the South of the Iberian Peninsula

M. Cortés Sánchez, J.F. Gibaja Bao, and M.D. Simón Vallejo

 

20. The End of the Middle Paleolithic in the Italian Alps

M. Peresani

 

21. Technological Behavior and Mobility of Human Groups Deduced from Lithic Assemblages in the Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene of the Middle Rhône Valley (France)

M.-H. Moncel

O autorze

Jürgen Richter geboren 1963, lebt in München und auf Gran Canaria. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Bildreportagen, Bücher und Kalender. Heute gilt er als einer der führenden Reisefotografen für Südeuropa, insbesondere Toskana, Provence, die iberische Halbinsel und die spanischen Inseln. Jürgen Richter, geb. 1963, lebt in München und auf Gran Canaria. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Bildreportagen, Bücher und Kalender. Heute gilt er als einer der führenden Reisefotografen für Südeuropa, insbesondere Toskana, Provence, die iberische Halbinsel und die spanischen Inseln. Der Deutsch-Amerikaner Nicholas J. Conard, 1961 in Cincinnati/Ohio geboren, ist seit 1995 Professor der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und leitet dort die Abteilung Ältere Urgeschichte am Institut für Frühgeschichte.