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The emergence of modern humans: an archaeological perspective

Mellars, Paul.

Year: c1990.

Publisher: Cornell University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

List of Contributors

A. REGIONAL STUDIES

1. Social and Ecological Models for the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa

2. A Critique of the Consensus View on the Age of Howieson's Poort Assemblages in South Africa

3. The Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of the Near East and the Nile Valley: the Problem of Cultural Transformations

4. The Amudian in the Context of the Mugharan Tradition at the Tabun Cave (Mount Carmel), Israel

5. A Technological analysis of the Upper Palaeolithic Levels (XXV-VI) of Ksar Akil, Lebanon

6. Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: the Evidence for the Nile Valley

7. The Szeletian and the Stratigraphic Succession in Central Europe and Adjacent Areas: Main Trends, Recent Results, and Problems for Resolution

8. Chronological Change in Périgord Lithic Assemblage Diversity

9. The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Southwestern France: Interpreting the Lithic Evidence

10. The Early Upper Palaeolithic of Southwest Europe Cro-Magnon Adaptations in the Iberian Peripheries, 40 000 - 20 000 BP

11. The Transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne, France): Technological, Economic and Social Aspects

12. Peopling Australasia: the 'Coastal Colonization' Hypothesis re-examined

B. GENERAL STUDIES

13. Middle Palaeolithic Socio-Economic Formations in Western Eurasia: an Exploratory Survey

14. Aspects of Behaviour in the Middle Palaeolithic: Functional Analysis of Stone Tools from Southwest France

15. A Multiaspectual Approach to the Origins of the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe

16. From the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic: the Nature of the Transition

17. Early Hominid Symbol and Evolution of the Human Capacity

18. Human Cognitive Changes at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: the Evidence of Boker Tachtit

19. Symbolic Origins and Transitions in the Palaeolithic

Author Index

Site and Localities Index

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The emergence of modern humans : an archaeological perspective edited by Paul Mellars.

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Mellars, Paul

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The emergence of modern humans : an archaeological perspective edited by Paul Mellars.
Mellars, Paul
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, c1990.

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Subject Headings:

• Fossil hominids
• Prehistoric peoples
• Paleolithic period
• Human evolution

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