Palaeolithic Italy: advanced studies on early human adaptations in the Apennine peninsula

The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to various well-researched regional hotspots in central and western Europe, as a result of historical research bias preventing the application of new research methodologies. Nonetheless, disc...

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Körperschaft: Out of Italy: Advanced studies on the Italian Palaeolithic (Veranstaltung) Cambridge (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Borgia, Valentina (HerausgeberIn), Cristiani, Emanuela (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Sidestone Press [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to various well-researched regional hotspots in central and western Europe, as a result of historical research bias preventing the application of new research methodologies. Nonetheless, discoveries regarding Neanderthal extinction and behavioural complexity, the dispersal of Anatomically Modern Humans as well as the origin and diffusion of modern technologies and symbolic behaviour in Europe have brought Italy into focus as an ideal region for understanding the evolutionary development of various hominin species that inhabited the continent in the Late Pleistocene. In particular the dynamics of the earliest human peopling of Europe, the reasons and timing of Neanderthals demise and how environmental factors affected human prehistoric behaviour, rates of technological innovation and connectivity of hunter-gatherer groups in Europe. [...] - Back cover
Beschreibung:"The 2015 conference at Cambridge University's McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research bringing together recent and current work on the Italian Palaeolithic ... has resulted in the exciting set of papers in this volume" -- Foreword
Beschreibung:428 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9789088905834
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