Neanderthals Rediscovered How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story

Name: Neanderthals Rediscovered How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story
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ISBN: 9780500051771

ISBN-10: 0500051771

ISBN-13: 9780500051771

Edition: 2013

Authors: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse

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In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthal has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and spoke. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies have forced a reassessment of the Neanderthals’ place in our own past. For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals evolved in Europe very much in parallel to the Homo sapiens line evolving in Africa, and, when both species made their first forays into Asia, the Neanderthals may even have had the upper hand. Here, Dimitra…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 10/7/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Dimitra Papagianni has taught courses on the Neanderthals at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Bath. She lives in New York State.



Preface



A Long Underestimated Type of Human



The First Europeans: 1 million to 600,000 years ago



Defeating the Cold: 600,000 to 250,000 years ago



Meet the Neanderthals: 250,000 to 130,000 years ago



An End to Isolation: 130,000 to 60,000 years ago



Endgame: 60,000 to 25,000 years ago



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