Overview
- New data that helps gain deeper insight into potential behavioural difference between Neanderthals and early modern humans ?
- Explores nature and range of variability in human hunting behaviour during MIS 3 and 4
- Addresses implications of this for broader understanding of Neanderthal extinction and modern human origins
- Direct comparisons between late Middle and early Upper Paleolithic assemblages
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Jamie L. Clark is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), and a research fellow at the Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologiem, Universität Tübingen (Germany). She received her BA in African and Middle Eastern History from Northwestern University (2002) and her MA (2004) and PhD (2009) in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of Michigan.
John D. Speth is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He served as Director of the Museum of Anthropology from 1986 to 1989 and as the Museum’s Associate Director from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Speth completed his BA in Geology at the University of New Mexico (1965), and his MA (1968) and PhD (1971) in Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Speth studies hunter-gatherers, past and present, New World and Old World.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins
Book Subtitle: Human Hunting Behavior during the Later Pleistocene
Editors: Jamie L. Clark, John D. Speth
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6766-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6765-2Published: 24 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9625-6Published: 09 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6766-9Published: 11 July 2013
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 275
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, Vertebrates, Ecology, Paleontology