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Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia

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Editors:
  1. Takeru Akazawa

    1. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Kenichi Aoki

    1. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Ofer Bar-Yosef

    1. Harvard University, Cambridge

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  3. Archaeological Assemblages: Cultural Interpretations and Subsistence Strategies

    1. The Earliest Paleolithic Occupation in Syria

      • Sultan Muhesen
      Pages 95-105

    2. Site Formation Processes in Kebara and Hayonim Caves and Their Significance in Levantine Prehistoric Caves

      • Paul Goldberg, Ofer Bar-Yosef
      Pages 107-125

    3. Intrasite Spatial Patterns and Behavioral Modernity

      • Donald O. Henry
      Pages 127-142

    4. The Lithic Assemblages of Amud Cave

      • Erella Hovers
      Pages 143-163

    5. Hayonim Cave Lithic Assemblages in the Context of the Near Eastern Middle Paleolithic

      • Liliane Meignen
      Pages 165-180

    6. Bitumen as Hafting Material on Middle Paleolithic Artifacts from the El Kowm Basin, Syria

      • Eric Boëda, Jacques Connan, Sultan Muhesen
      Pages 181-204

    7. The Technological Abilities of the Levantine Mousterians

      • Naama Goren-Inbar, Anna Belfer-Cohen
      Pages 205-221

    8. The Role of Hunting and Scavenging in Neandertal Procurement Strategies

      • John D. Speth, Eitan Tchernov
      Pages 223-239

    9. Pleistocene Species Trends at Hayonim Cave

      • Mary C. Stiner, Eitan Tchernov
      Pages 241-262

    10. Neandertal and Early Modern Human Mobility Patterns

      • Daniel E. Lieberman
      Pages 263-275

    11. Prospects for Stable Isotopic Analysis of Later Pleistocene Hominid Diets in West Asia and Europe

      • Stanley H. Ambrose
      Pages 277-294

  4. The Human Fossils

    1. Climatic Changes, Paleogeography, and the Evolution of the Neandertals

      • Jean-Jacques Hublin
      Pages 295-310

    2. Sapiens and Neandertals

      • Baruch Arensburg, Anna Belfer-Cohen
      Pages 311-322
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About this book

In this fascinating volume, the Middle Paleolithic archaeology of the Middle East is brought to the current debate on the origins of modern humans. These collected papers gather the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries of Western Asia - a region that is often overshadowed by African or European findings - but the only region in the world where both Neandertal and early modern human fossils have been found. The collection includes reports on such well known cave sites as Kebara, Hayonim, and Qafzeh, among others. The information and interpretations available here are a must for any serious researcher or student of anthropology or human evolution.

Reviews

`I recommend this book as an excellent summary of this emerging reality.'
American Scientist, 87 (1999)
`This text is a must for researchers in Old World prehistory or the origins of modern humans and would serve well as a classroom text on Eurasian prehistory.'
Science Books and Films (September/October 1999)

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan

    Takeru Akazawa

  • University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kenichi Aoki

  • Harvard University, Cambridge

    Ofer Bar-Yosef

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia

  • Editors: Takeru Akazawa, Kenichi Aoki, Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b109961

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45924-5Published: 30 September 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-8592-0Published: 22 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47153-7Published: 27 December 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 539

  • Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Archaeology, Life Sciences, general

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