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Book SynopsisAn overview of Pleistocene or Ice-Age settlement in Eastern Europe, with the main focus on the adaptations of Neanderthals and modern humans to the environment. This book looks at human evolution in such a cold climate and how technological innovation led to the extinction of the Neanderthals.
Trade ReviewMost English-reading archaeologists know that Eastern European prehistory can illuminate cultural evolution over tens of thousands of years. . . . Now, for the first time, they have a readily available, highly readable, authoritative, and comprehensive source to inform both themselves and their students. * from the Foreword by Richard G. Klein *
Hoffecker presents a concise review of the Paleolitic archaeology of east Europe, wrapping together in one volume an extensive bibliography that includes many Russian-language sources not readily available to non-Russian speakersàWell illustrated with a selection colleges and universities with course offerings at the undergraduate and graduate level in anthropology, archaeology, and environmental studies. * Choice *
John Hoffecker has written a very worthy addition to the small, but substantive collection of books by Americans that make the Paleolithic record of Eastern Europe accessible to the Anglophone community of paleanthropologists/prehistorians. . . . An excellent, well-written, scholarly work by a specialist with a long track record in Russian and Arctic archaeology. * Journal of Anthropological Research *
Table of ContentsFigures
Tables
Foreword
Richard G. Klein
Preface and Acknowledgments
Human Evolutionary Ecology and Eastern Europe
Environmental Setting
Middle Pleistocene Settlement
Neanderthal Adaptations
The Transition to Modern Humans
People of the Loess Steppe
Retrospective
Bibliography
Index
