Neanderthal Legacy - Mellars Paul A.
Neanderthal Legacy - Mellars Paul A. The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. Seeking to understand the…
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Neanderthal Legacy - Mellars Paul A.
The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become a hotly debated issue, Paul Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount of information on the behavior of Neanderthals. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area.
Mellars argues that previous attempts to characterize Neanderthal behavior as either "modern" or "ape-like" are both overstatements. His comprehensive overview ranges from the evidence of tool manufacture and related patterns of lithic technology, through the issues of subsistence and settlement patterns, to the more controversial evidence for social organization, cognition, and intelligence. We can better comprehend the replacement of Neanderthals, he maintains, by