Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Paleoanthropology in Greece: Recent Findings and Interpretations....Pages 3-14
The Role of the Central Balkans in the Peopling of Europe: Paleoanthropological Evidence....Pages 15-33
The Importance of Croatian Pleistocene Hominin Finds in the Study of Human Evolution....Pages 35-50
The Human Fossil Record from Romania: Early Upper Paleolithic European Mandibles and Neanderthal Admixture....Pages 51-68
The Human Fossil Record of Bulgaria and the Formulation of Biogeographic Hypotheses....Pages 69-78
The Human Fossil Record from Turkey....Pages 79-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic on the Western Coast of the Mani Peninsula (Southern Greece)....Pages 95-117
The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece: 2010–2012....Pages 119-138
Technological Changes and Population Movements in the Late Lower and Early Middle Paleolithic of the Central Balkans....Pages 139-151
Recent Research on the Croatian Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in the Context of Central and Southeast Europe....Pages 153-169
The Lower Paleolithic of Romania Revisited: New Evidence from the Site of Dealul Guran....Pages 171-186
A Route Through the Balkans and Implications for the Earliest Settlement of Europe....Pages 187-211
The Lower Paleolithic in Turkey: Anatolia and Hominin Dispersals Out of Africa....Pages 213-228
Technological Variability of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: Examples from the Balkans and Neighbouring Regions....Pages 229-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
The Plio-Pleistocene Large Mammal Record of Greece: Implications for Early Human Dispersals into Europe....Pages 269-280
Southeastern Europe as a Route for the Earliest Dispersal of Homo Toward Europe: Ecological Conditions and the Timing of the First Human Occupation of Europe....Pages 281-290
Small Mammals in the Plio/Pleistocene Sediments of Greece....Pages 291-302
On the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Mediterranean Lower Paleolithic Sites: A Geoarchaeological Perspective....Pages 303-323
Back Matter....Pages 325-331