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Author: Stephen Aldhouse-Green
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781842174609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe caves of the Elwy valley contain evidence of the earliest human occupation of Wales, the site at Pontnewydd having transformed understanding of human settlement. This monograph documents the results of 20 years of field research.
Author: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-08-20
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1472937481
DOWNLOAD EBOOK** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
Author: Clive Finlayson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010-11-11
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0199239193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in hardcover: Oxford; New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 2009.
Author: Stephen Green
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn attractive museum booklet illustrating the wealth of evidence for Neanderthals and Early Modern Hunters' in the caves of south and north Wales - from Paviland to Pontnewydd. Good plans, good pictures, good text.
Author: Jennifer C. French
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-12-09
Total Pages: 723
ISBN-13: 110858411X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Jennifer French presents a new synthesis of the archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and palaeogenetic records of the European Palaeolithic, adopting a unique demographic perspective on these first two-million years of European prehistory. Unlike prevailing narratives of demographic stasis, she emphasises the dynamism of Palaeolithic populations of both our evolutionary ancestors and members of our own species across four demographic stages, within a context of substantial Pleistocene climatic changes. Integrating evolutionary theory with a socially oriented approach to the Palaeolithic, French bridges biological and cultural factors, with a focus on women and children as the drivers of population change. She shows how, within the physiological constraints on fertility and mortality, social relationships provide the key to enduring demographic success. Through its demographic focus, French combines a 'big picture' perspective on human evolution with careful analysis of the day-to-day realities of European Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities—their families, their children, and their lives.
Author: Frances Lynch
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Limited
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA title which aims to give the reader a modern and authoratative summary of research interpretations on prehistoric monuments, sites and artefacts. This book should be of interest to anyone who has a serious interest in Welsh history and in early settlement and society in the British Isles.
Author: Paul Pettitt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 0415674549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation to the end of the Ice Age. It fills a major gap in teaching resources as well in research by providing a current synthesis of the latest research on the period.
Author: Clive Finlayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-03-11
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1139449710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the Pleistocene. In particular, it challenges the view that Modern Human 'superiority' caused the extinction of the Neanderthals between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. Clive Finlayson shows that to understand human evolution, the spread of humankind across the world and the extinction of archaic populations, we must move away from a purely theoretical evolutionary ecology base and realise the importance of wider biogeographic patterns including the role of tropical and temperate refugia. His proposal is that Neanderthals became extinct because their world changed faster than they could cope with, and that their relationship with the arriving Modern Humans, where they met, was subtle.
Author: Rudolf Botha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1108491324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy appraising controversial inferences from prehistorians and other scientists, the book addresses the fascinating question of whether Neanderthals had language.
Author: Prys Morgan
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2008-02-24
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 075249631X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tempus History of Wales 25,000 BC to AD 2000.
