Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia

Evolutionary Implications of Altered Perspectives on Hominine Demes and Populations in the Later Pleistocene of Western Eurasia....Pages 5-27
Chronological and Biogeographic Perspectives on Later Human Evolution....Pages 29-37
The Chronology of the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant....Pages 39-56
Progress in ESR and U-Series Chronology of the Levantine Paleolithic....Pages 57-67
Gif Labotatory Dates for Middle Paleolithic Levant....Pages 69-75
The Faunal Sequence of the Southwest Asian Middle Paleolithic in Relation to Hominid Dispersal Events....Pages 77-94
The Earliest Paleolithic Occupation in Syria....Pages 95-105
Site Formation Processes in Kebara and Hayonim Caves and Their Significance in Levantine Prehistoric Caves....Pages 107-125
Intrasite Spatial Patterns and Behavioral Modernity....Pages 127-142
The Lithic Assemblages of Amud Cave....Pages 143-163
Hayonim Cave Lithic Assemblages in the Context of the Near Eastern Middle Paleolithic....Pages 165-180
Bitumen as Hafting Material on Middle Paleolithic Artifacts from the El Kowm Basin, Syria....Pages 181-204
The Technological Abilities of the Levantine Mousterians....Pages 205-221
The Role of Hunting and Scavenging in Neandertal Procurement Strategies....Pages 223-239
Pleistocene Species Trends at Hayonim Cave....Pages 241-262
Neandertal and Early Modern Human Mobility Patterns....Pages 263-275
Prospects for Stable Isotopic Analysis of Later Pleistocene Hominid Diets in West Asia and Europe....Pages 277-294
Climatic Changes, Paleogeography, and the Evolution of the Neandertals....Pages 295-310
Sapiens and Neandertals....Pages 311-322
Anatomy of the Neandertal Infant Skeleton from Dederiyeh Cave, Syria....Pages 323-338
The Search for the Earliest Modern Europeans....Pages 339-352
Does Any Mousterian Cave Present Evidence of Two Hominid Species?....Pages 353-366
Morphological Variation in West Asian Postcrania....Pages 367-379
Ontogenetic Variation in Late Pleistocene Homo Sapiens from the Near East....Pages 381-389
Upper Limb Versus Lower Limb Loading Patterns among Near Eastern Middle Paleolithic Hominids....Pages 391-404
A Reassessment of the Tabun C2 Mandible....Pages 405-421
The Evolution of Culture....Pages 427-438
Domestic Fire as Evidence for Language....Pages 439-447
A Comparative Perspective on Paleolithic Cultural Patterns....Pages 449-460
The Middle and the Early Upper Paleolithic around the Black Sea....Pages 461-482
Turkey as a Key....Pages 483-492
The Impact of Climatic Changes on the Demography of Late Neandertal and Early Anatomically Modern Populations in Europe....Pages 493-507
Why Anatomically Modern People Did Not Disperse from Africa 100,000 Years Ago....Pages 509-521
Afterword....Pages 523-527