The emergence of modern humans : biocultural adaptations in the later Pleistocene / edited by Erik Trinkaus.

Date:
1989
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Notes

Papers from a seminar held April 21-25, 1986 at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"A School of American Research book"
Includes index
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

Bibliographic information

Bibliography: p. 232-276

Contents

Partial contents: Issues concerning human emergence in the later Pleistocene / Erik Trinkaus -- Isolating the transition to cultural adaptations : an organizational approach / Lewis R. Binford -- The Upper Pleistocene transition / Erik Trinkaus -- Documenting the origin of modern humans / C.B. Stringer -- The place of the Neandertals in human evolution / Milford H. Wolpoff -- From the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic : transition or convergence? / Jean-Philippe Rigaud -- Upper Pleistocene cultural stratigraphy in southwest Asia / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- The adaptive basis of Neandertal facial form, with some thoughts on the nature of modern human origins / Fred H. Smith and Steven P. Paquette -- Toward a contextual understanding of the earliest body ornaments / Randall White.

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  • 0521372410