Neanderthals and modern humans in the European landscape during the last glaciation : archaeological results of the Stage 3 Project

Resource Information

The work Neanderthals and modern humans in the European landscape during the last glaciation : archaeological results of the Stage 3 Project represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Neanderthals and modern humans in the European landscape during the last glaciation : archaeological results of the Stage 3 Project

Title remainder

archaeological results of the Stage 3 Project

Statement of responsibility

edited by Tjeerd H. van Andel & William Davies ; with contributions by Leslie C. Aiello ... [et al.]

Contributor

• Stage 3 Project
• Aiello, Leslie
• Davies, William, 1970-
• Van Andel, Tjeerd H., (Tjeerd Hendrik), 1923-2010

Subject

• Cro-Magnons -- Europe
• Glacial climates -- Europe
• Neanderthals -- Europe
• Paleoclimatology -- Europe
• Paleoclimatology -- Pleistocene
• Paleoecology -- Europe
• Paleoecology -- Pleistocene
• Paleolithic period -- Europe
• Van Andel, Olga Marie

Language

eng

Summary

"For the past seven years a team of international experts from a wide range of disciplines have worked together to provide a detailed study of the world occupied by the European Neanderthals between 60,000 and 25,000 years ago: the period known as Oxygen Isotope Stage 3. Modern humans arrived in Europe 45,000 years ago and for the following 15,000 years the two human species shared the continent, until the Neanderthals became extinct about 30,000 years ago. The new chronological and archaeological data base constructed by the Stage 3 Project sets the Neanderthal and modern human sites in a continent-wide framework of space and time. A mammalian data base maps the ecology and fauna of the period, providing fresh insights into the availability of plant and animal foods in different parts of the European landscape as the Ice Age climate changed and fluctuated. New high-resolution computer simulations give detailed estimates of temperature and rainfall, and above all of the wind-chill and snow cover that would have such an impact on both humans and on the resources they needed for survival." "The results provide revolutionary insights into the glacial climate of Stage 3 and the landscapes and resources that influenced late Palaeolithic life-styles. New hypotheses are offered to explain why and how Neanderthal and modern human societies chose where to settle and why they moved on in the face of ever-changing conditions. Above all, the models presented in this volume raise a host of new questions about differences in the human responses to climate and environment, not just between the two separate human species but also between those who arrived early and those who followed later."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

TJC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

GN285

LC item number

.N447 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

McDonald Institute monographs