Overview
- Maximizes understanding of fundamental processes in human evolution
- Provides an archaeological perspective on Neanderthals and their contemporaries
- Highlights the importance of human evolutionary studies for 21st century medical professionals and physicians
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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About this book
Contributions from experts around the globe fall roughly into three broad categories: Reflections on some of the broad theoretical questions of evolution, and especially about human evolution; the early hominins, with special emphasis on Australopithecus afarensis and Paranthropus; and the Neanderthals, that contentious group of our closest extinct relatives. Within and across these categories, nearly every paper addresses combinations of methodological, analytical and theoretical questions that are pertinent to the whole human evolutionary time span. This book will appeal most to scholars and advanced students in paleoanthropology, human paleontology and prehistoric archaeology.
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Keywords
- Neanderthals
- Yoel Rak
- human evolution
- cultural and biological evolution
- Upper Ndolanya Bed
- Hominin Evolution
- Kebara 2 Neanderthal
- Tabun C2 Jaw
- Near Eastern Neanderthals
- Australopithecus afarensis
- Paranthropus
- diagnostic morphologies of bipedality
- mandibular morphology and dentition of australopiths
- paleodemography
- human paleoanthropology
Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Erella Hovers is a Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research Interests include understanding the Plio-Pleistocene archaeology in East Africa, the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, the evolution of symbolism and art, lithic technology, subsistence and mobility (land-use strategies) of early hominins, taphonomy and site formation processes, and archaeological theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Paleontology and Prehistory
Book Subtitle: Contributions in Honor of Yoel Rak
Editors: Assaf Marom, Erella Hovers
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46646-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46644-6Published: 01 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83553-2Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46646-0Published: 24 January 2017
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 83 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Paleontology, History, general, Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, Regional and Cultural Studies