Author : Stephen Aldhouse-Green
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842174609
The caves of the Elwy valley contain evidence of the earliest human occupation of Wales, the site at Pontnewydd having transformed understanding of human settlement. This monograph documents the results of 20 years of field research.
Author : Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472937481
** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
Author : Stephen Green
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
An attractive museum booklet illustrating the wealth of evidence for Neanderthals and Early Modern Hunters' in the caves of south and north Wales - from Paviland to Pontnewydd. Good plans, good pictures, good text.
Author : Clive Finlayson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199239193
Originally published in hardcover: Oxford; New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 2009.
Author : Jennifer C. French
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 110858411X
In this book, Jennifer French presents a new synthesis of the archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and palaeogenetic records of the European Palaeolithic, adopting a unique demographic perspective on these first two-million years of European prehistory. Unlike prevailing narratives of demographic stasis, she emphasises the dynamism of Palaeolithic populations of both our evolutionary ancestors and members of our own species across four demographic stages, within a context of substantial Pleistocene climatic changes. Integrating evolutionary theory with a socially oriented approach to the Palaeolithic, French bridges biological and cultural factors, with a focus on women and children as the drivers of population change. She shows how, within the physiological constraints on fertility and mortality, social relationships provide the key to enduring demographic success. Through its demographic focus, French combines a 'big picture' perspective on human evolution with careful analysis of the day-to-day realities of European Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities—their families, their children, and their lives.
Author : Elizabeth Watts
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351106031
Neanderthals in the Classroom examines the ongoing battle surrounding evolution from a cultural and historical perspective and then puts Theodosius Dobzhansky’s claim that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” to the ultimate test by exploring the potential evolutionary roots of this societal and educational clash over human origins. In examining the biological roots of the conflict, Watts demonstrates how understanding our inner Neanderthal allows us to consciously choose more highly evolved forms of communication as a means of alleviating societal division and creating space for more effective science education. Key Features: Introduces readers to the multifaceted world of evolution education. Describes the complex interplay between religious beliefs and science as well as the clash of false information and formal education. Offers an overview of the transformation of public opinion of evolution and science over time in the United States due to the perceived conflict between science and religion. Examines students’ misconceptions about the theory of evolution and the general nature of scientific discovery due to the contradictory messages that they receive in popular culture. Offers potential means to amend misconceptions so that students and other individuals can integrate evolutionary theory into their worldviews, regardless of their religious background.
Author : Frances Lynch
Publisher : Sutton Publishing Limited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
A title which aims to give the reader a modern and authoratative summary of research interpretations on prehistoric monuments, sites and artefacts. This book should be of interest to anyone who has a serious interest in Welsh history and in early settlement and society in the British Isles.
Author : Clive Finlayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2004-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139449710
Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the Pleistocene. In particular, it challenges the view that Modern Human 'superiority' caused the extinction of the Neanderthals between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. Clive Finlayson shows that to understand human evolution, the spread of humankind across the world and the extinction of archaic populations, we must move away from a purely theoretical evolutionary ecology base and realise the importance of wider biogeographic patterns including the role of tropical and temperate refugia. His proposal is that Neanderthals became extinct because their world changed faster than they could cope with, and that their relationship with the arriving Modern Humans, where they met, was subtle.
Author : Prys Morgan
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2008-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 075249631X
The Tempus History of Wales 25,000 BC to AD 2000.
Author : Rudolf Botha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108865445
Did Neanderthals have language, and if so, what was it like? Scientists agree overall that the behaviour and cognition of Neanderthals resemble that of early modern humans in important ways. However, the existence and nature of Neanderthal language remains a controversial topic. The first in-depth treatment of this intriguing subject, this book comes to the unique conclusion that, collective hunting is a better window on Neanderthal language than other behaviours. It argues that Neanderthal hunters employed linguistic signs akin to those of modern language, but lacked complex grammar. Rudolf Botha unpacks and appraises important inferences drawn by researchers working in relevant branches of archaeology and other prehistorical fields, and uses a large range of multidisciplinary literature to bolster his arguments. An important contribution to this lively field, this book will become a landmark book for students and scholars alike, in essence, illuminating Neanderthals' linguistic powers.
