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

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Imprint:Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2018.
Description:1 online resource (375 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12871104
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Other authors / contributors:Borgia, Valentina, editor.
Cristiani, Emanuela, editor.
ISBN:9789088905858
9088905851
9789088905841
9088905843
9789088905834
9088905835
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: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. This edited volume aims to contribute to our better understanding of the previous, still open, research questions.
Other form:Print version: Palaeolithic Italy. Advanced studies on early human adaptations in the Apennine peninsula. Leiden : Sidestone Press 2018 9789088905841