Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology: One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study (Hardcover)

PART I The Chronological Framework: Long Time Sequences 1. When Did the Middle Paleolithic Begin? Jurgen Richter 2. Neanderthals and Monkeys in the Wurmian of Central Europe - the Middle Paleolithic Site of Hunas, Southern Germany W. Rosendahl, D. Ambros, B. Hilpert, U. Hambach, K.W. Alt, M. Knipping, L. Reisch, and B. Kaulich_ 3. Neanderthals in the Cold: Middle Paleolithic Sites from the Open-Cast Mine of Garzweiler, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) Thorsten Uthmeier, Holger Kels, Wolfgang Schirmer, and Utz Bohner 4. Neanderthal Occupation in the Verdon Valley (Haute-Provence, Southeastern France) J. Gagnepain and C. Gaillard 5. Dating Small Heated Flint Artifacts: A New Thermoluminescence Technique Daniel Richter PART II Neanderthal Subsistence and Raw Material Procurement 6. On Neanderthal Subsistence in Last Interglacial Forested Environments in Northern Europe S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser and W. Roebroeks 7. Diet and Ecology of Neanderthals - Implications from C and N Isotopes H. Bocherens 8. Management of Paleoenvironmental Resources and Raw Materials Exploitation at the Middle Paleolithic Site of Oscurusciuto (Ginosa, Southern Italy): Units 1 and 4 P. Boscato, P. Gambassini, F. Ranaldo, and A. Ronchitelli PART III Neanderthal Cognition and Technological Knowledge 9. Neanderthal Technoeconomics. An Assessment and Suggestions for Future Developments S.L. Kuhn 10. Blade Production in the Early Phase of the Middle Paleolithic at Bapaume-les Osiers (Pas-de-Calais, France) H. Koehler 11. The Lithic Production System of the Middle Paleolithic Settlement of Le Fond des Blanchards at Gron (Yonne, France) V. Lhomme, E. Nicoud, M. Pagli, A. Coudenneau, and R. Rocca 12. Technological Analysis of the Bifacial Tools from La Micoque and its Implications G. Rosendahl 13. Handedness in Neanderthals N.T. Uomini PART IV Neanderthal social organization and land use 14. The Social and Material Life of Neanderthals C. Gamble 15. Stability in the Intermittence A. Lourdeau 16. Territorial Mobility of Neanderthal Groups - a Case Study from Level M of Abric Romani (Capellades, Barcelona, Spain) M.C. Fernandez-Laso, M.G. Chacon Navarro, M.D. Garcia-Anton, and F. Rivals 17. Level G of Las Fuentes de San Cristobal (Southern Pyrenees, Spain) M.D. Garcia-Anton, L. Menendez Granda, and M.G. Chacon Navarro PART V Cultural Adaptation among the Last Neanderthals 18. The Demise of the Neanderthal Cultural Niche and the Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern Germany N.J. Conard 19. Level 14 of Bajondillo Cave and the End of the Middle Paleolithic in the South of the Iberian Peninsula M. Cortes Sanchez, J.F. Gibaja Bao, and M.D. Simon Vallejo 20. The End of the Middle Paleolithic in the Italian Alps M. Peresani 21. Technological Behavior and Mobility of Human Groups Deduced from Lithic Assemblages in the Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene of the Middle Rhone Valley (France) M.-H. Moncel