书目名称 | Transitions Before the Transition |
副标题 | Evolution and Stabil |
编辑 | Erella Hovers,Steven L. Kuhn |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/929/928791/928791.mp4 |
概述 | The first book to bring together the three main questions regarding modern human origins: how different are we from our ancestors in the Paleolithc/Stone Age, how "difficult" was the transition, and d |
丛书名称 | Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. The much-discussed split between advocates of a single, early emergence of anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa and supporters of various regional continuity positions is only part of the picture. Equally if not more important are questions surrounding the origins of modern behavior, and the relationships between anatomical and behavioral changes that occurred during the past 200,000 years. Although modern humans as a species may be defined in terms of their skeletal anatomy, it is their behavior, and the social and cognitive structures that support that behavior, which most clearly distinguish Homo sapiens from earlier forms of humans...This book assembles researchers working in Eurasia and Africa to discuss the archaeological record of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age. This is a time period when Homo sapiens last shared the world with other species, and during which patterns of behavior characteristic of modern humans developed and coalesced. Contributions to this volume query and challenge some current notions about the t |
出版日期 | Book 2006 |
关键词 | Evolution; Homo sapiens; Middle Paleolithic; Middle Stone Age; Stone Age; cultural evolution; neanderthal; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/b106329 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-2036-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-24661-1Series ISSN 1568-2722 Series E-ISSN 2730-6984 |
issn_series | 1568-2722 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2006 |