Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Human Fossil Record

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Paleoanthropology in Greece: Recent Findings and Interpretations

      • Katerina Harvati

      Pages 3-14

   3. The Role of the Central Balkans in the Peopling of Europe: Paleoanthropological Evidence

      • Mirjana Roksandic

      Pages 15-33

   4. The Importance of Croatian Pleistocene Hominin Finds in the Study of Human Evolution

      • Ivor Janković, James C. M. Ahern, Ivor Karavanić, Fred H. Smith

      Pages 35-50

   5. The Human Fossil Record from Romania: Early Upper Paleolithic European Mandibles and Neanderthal Admixture

      • Katerina Harvati, Mirjana Roksandic

      Pages 51-68

   6. The Human Fossil Record of Bulgaria and the Formulation of Biogeographic Hypotheses

      • David S. Strait, Caley M. Orr, Jamie Hodgkins, Nikolai Spassov, Maria Gurova, Christopher Miller et al.

      Pages 69-78

   7. The Human Fossil Record from Turkey

      • Ahmet İhsan Aytek, Katerina Harvati

      Pages 79-91

3. The Archaeological Record

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. The Middle and Upper Paleolithic on the Western Coast of the Mani Peninsula (Southern Greece)

      • Andreas Darlas, Eleni Psathi

      Pages 95-117

   3. The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece: 2010–2012

      • Nena Galanidou, Constantin Athanassas, James Cole, Giorgos Iliopoulos, Athanasios Katerinopoulos, Andreas Magganas et al.

      Pages 119-138

   4. Technological Changes and Population Movements in the Late Lower and Early Middle Paleolithic of the Central Balkans

      • Dušan Mihailović, Katarina Bogićević

      Pages 139-151

   5. Recent Research on the Croatian Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in the Context of Central and Southeast Europe

      • Ivor Karavanić, Rajna Šošić-Klindžić, James C. M. Ahern, Natalija Čondić, Ivor Janković, Krunoslav Zubčić et al.

      Pages 153-169

   6. The Lower Paleolithic of Romania Revisited: New Evidence from the Site of Dealul Guran

      • Adrian Doboş, Radu Iovita

      Pages 171-186

   7. A Route Through the Balkans and Implications for the Earliest Settlement of Europe

      • Stefanka Ivanova

      Pages 187-211

   8. The Lower Paleolithic in Turkey: Anatolia and Hominin Dispersals Out of Africa

      • Berkay Dinçer

      Pages 213-228

   9. Technological Variability of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: Examples from the Balkans and Neighbouring Regions

      • Valéry Sitlivy

      Pages 229-265

4. Paleoenvironments, Biogeography and Chronology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267

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   2. The Plio-Pleistocene Large Mammal Record of Greece: Implications for Early Human Dispersals into Europe

      • George D. Koufos, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos

      Pages 269-280

   3. Southeastern Europe as a Route for the Earliest Dispersal of Homo Toward Europe: Ecological Conditions and the Timing of the First Human Occupation of Europe

      • Nikolai Spassov

      Pages 281-290

This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known. The primary aim of this book is to showcase new paleoanthropological (human paleontological and paleolithic) research conducted in the region. 


The volume is organized into three sections. The first one deals with the human fossil record from Greece, the Central Balkans, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. The second section presents the paleolithic record of the same countries. In the third part, the authors provide a synthesis of current paleoenvironmental evidence for the Balkans. Chapters summarize and systematize the available human fossil evidence, examine their context, and place them within the framework of our understanding of human evolutionin Europe and beyond, as well as present new analyses of existing human fossils. This book will be of interest to professionals, upper undergraduate and graduate students in paleoanthropology, human paleontology and paleolithic archaeology and in a variety of related fields, including human variation and adaptation, paleontology and biogeography. It will also be appropriate as a reference book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on human evolution and European paleoanthropology.

• Paleolithic record
• earliest settlement of Europe
• early human dispersal
• Neanderthals
• Upper Paleolithic humans
• 3-d geometric morphometric analysis
• Greek human fossil record
• Central Balkans human fossil record
• Croatia human fossil record
• Romania human fossil record
• Bulgaria human fossil record
• Turkey human fossil record
• Environmental Geography

“The volume is a welcome contribution to the field of European Paleoanthropology. Several of the most success¬ful contributions are descriptive pieces that detail new ar¬cheological discoveries, which, as becomes increasingly ap¬parent when reading the volume, are sorely needed. In this context, I found Tourloukis’ observations on site distribu¬tions in basins particularly useful and I was pleased to see him acknowledge that landscape dynamics are integral to explaining site distributions of Paleolithic industries. The articles dealing with the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transi¬tion are also of excellent quality.” (Wei Chu, University of Cologne)

• Paleoanthropology, Department of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  Katerina Harvati

• Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

  Mirjana Roksandic

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