Overview
- Presents the latest overview of archaeological records on the replacement/assimilation processes of Neanderthals by modern humans in the Levant and its surroundings
- Includes summaries of firsthand evidence from the Caucasus, the Zagros, and South Asia, previously unavailable in English
- Explains the range expansion processes of modern humans during the Initial Upper Paleolithic
Part of the book series: Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series (RNMH)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Levant
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The Neighboring Regions of the Levant
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Takeru Akazawa taught prehistoric anthropology as a professor at The University of Tokyo, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, and Kochi University of Technology and is currently a professor emeritus at the latter two. His major research contributions cover a wide range of subjects in prehistoric anthropology, such as the hunter-gatherers’ adaptation in the Japanese archipelago and the Paleolithic human ecology in West Asia. Of the latter, the most notable were the multidisciplinary studies of the behavioral and cognitive characteristics of the Neanderthals. The outcomes of the research, which was based on a series of Neanderthal fossils discovered from his own excavations of the Dederiyeh Cave, Syria, have been published in numerous books and journals in the field of human evolution and prehistory, including the Replacement of Neanderthals and Modern Humans volumes, Springer, of which Prof. Akazawa is a series editor.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and Beyond
Editors: Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Takeru Akazawa
Series Title: Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6826-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6825-6Published: 22 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4953-9Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6826-3Published: 06 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-063X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 218
Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology