Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling of Europe: One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Neanderthals and Emergent Palaeoanthropology 50 Years Ago....Pages 1-9
One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Discoveries: Continuity and Discontinuity....Pages 11-16
The Genus Homo : Origin, Speciation and Dispersal....Pages 17-45
Before the Neanderthals: Hominid Evolution in Middle Pleistocene Europe....Pages 47-53
The Earliest European Human Peopling After the Recent Discoveries: Early Neanderthals or Different Lineages?....Pages 55-66
The Gran Dolina-TD6 Human Fossil Remains and the Origin of Neanderthals....Pages 67-75
The Hominid Fossils from China Contemporaneous with the Neanderthals and Some Related Studies....Pages 77-87
Behavioral and Cultural Origins of Neanderthals: A Levantine Perspective....Pages 89-100
Discontinuities in the Faunal Assemblages and Early Human Populations of Central and Western Europe During the Middle and Late Pleistocene....Pages 101-112
Neanderthal Geographical and Chronological Variation....Pages 113-125
A Preliminary Approach to the Neanderthal Speciation by Distance Hypothesis: A View from the Shoulder Complex....Pages 127-138
Facts and Ideas in Paleolithic Growth Studies (Paleoauxology)....Pages 139-153
Dental Development and Age at Death of a Middle Paleolithic Juvenile Hominin from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan....Pages 155-163
Computerized Reconstruction of Prenatal Growth Trajectories in the Dentition: Implications for the Taxonomic Status of Neandertals....Pages 165-173
Endostructural Characterisation of the Regourdou 1 Neanderthal Proximal Arm: Bilateral Asymmetry and Handedness....Pages 175-178
A Three-Dimensional Look at the Neanderthal Mandible....Pages 179-192
Integration and Homology of “Chignon” and “Hemibun” Morphology....Pages 193-202
Virtual Synthesis of the Skull in Neanderthals by FESS....Pages 203-211
Neandertal mtDNA from a Late Pleistocene Human Mandible from the Cova del Gegant (Spain)....Pages 213-217
Towards Neanderthal Paleogenomics....Pages 219-221
Twelve Years of Neandertal Genetic Discoveries: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges....Pages 223-238
Radiocarbon Dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: The Demise of the Last Neanderthals and the First Appearance of Anatomically Modern Humans in Europe....Pages 239-298
Archaeological, Paleontological and Genomic Perspectives on Late European Neandertals at Vindija Cave, Croatia....Pages 299-313
Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans in Europe, Population Dynamics and Paleobiology....Pages 315-329
Aliens from Outer Time? Why the “Human Revolution” Is Wrong, and Where Do We Go from Here?....Pages 331-366
Neandertals and the Roots of Human Recency....Pages 367-377
Epilogue: 150 Years of Neanderthal Research – A Hopeless Situation but Not Serious....Pages 379-381
Back Matter....Pages 383-386