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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Well written and nicely illustrated by a large collection of specialists, and the book is a useful and timely addition to the technical literature." --Quarterly Review of Biology
Table of Contents1. Updating Neanderthals: taking stock of more than 160 years of studies 2. The climatic and environmental context of the Late Pleistocene 3. Biotic interactions in the Middle and Late Palaeolithic 4. Different species on the horizon: Denisovan hominins 5. Neanderthal: anatomy, genes, and evolution 6. Neanderthal brain 7. Neanderthal subsistence: selective or opportunistic hunters? 8. Small animal use by Neanderthals 9. The use of plants by Neanderthals 10. Neanderthal technological variability: a wide-range geographical perspective in the Final Middle Palaeolithic 11. The organisation of living spaces in Neanderthal campsites 12. Fire among Neanderthals 13. "Art": Neanderthal symbolic graphic behaviour 14. Spiritual and symbolic activities of Neanderthals 15. Beyond European boundaries: Neanderthals in the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus 16. Methodological advances in ancient Paleolithic studies 17. The arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe
