Holliday Cro-Magnon

The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55577-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

This book tells the story of the dynamic and resilient people commonly known as the Cro-Magnons in light of recent scientific advances.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holliday, Trenton W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. Discovery
2. Archaeology of the Ancients
3. The Abel to Our Cain? Homo neanderthalensis
4. Fossil and Recent Homo sapiens
5. A Paleontological Perspective on Modern Human Origins
6. The Genetics of Modern Human Origins
7. Is There Such a Thing as Modern Human Behavior?
8. Neandertal and Cro-Magnon Interactions in Europe
9. Bioanthropology of the Cro-Magnons
10. Slings and Arrows
11. Cro-Magnon Art
12. Cold Comfort
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Trenton Holliday is professor of anthropology at Tulane University and honorary research fellow at the Centre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey, University of the Witwatersrand.