Transitions Before the Transition Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hovers, Erella (Editor), Kuhn, Steven L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions To Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; History, general.

Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. The much-discussed split between advocates of a single, early emergence of anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa and supporters of various regional continuit...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction
• On Naming Things
• Observations on Systematics in Paleolithic Archaeology
• Testing Retouched Flake Tool Standardization During the Middle Paleolithic
• Diversity of Lithic Production Systems During the Middle Paleolithic in France
• Trajectories of Change in the Middle Paleolithic of Italy
• Stasis and Change During the Crimean Middle Paleolithic
• Monospecific or Species-Dominated Faunal Assemblages During the Middle Paleolithic in Europe
• Middle Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Levant
• Housekeeping, Neandertal-Style
• The Middle Paleolithic of the Levant
• Middle Paleolithic Subsistence Ecology in the Mediterranean Region
• Projectile Technologies of the African MSA
• From Acheulean to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
• The Use of Space in the Late Middle Stone Age of Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa
• “Now You See it, Now You Don't”—Modern Human Behavior in the Middle Paleolithic
• Between Observations and Models.