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This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and incrementally, through stages, or suddenly, in one leap, in all its complexity? Does language evolution involve natural selection or not? This book is essential reading for scholars and students interested in language evolution, especially those in the fields of linguistics, psychology, biology, anthropology, and neuroscience. .

Linguistics --- Neanderthalers

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Linguistics --- Neanderthalers --- Historical linguistics.

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Sommigen beweren dat hij stierf van de kou, anderen dat hij omkwam van de honger en nog anderen zeggen dat de homo sapiens hem uitroeide. Maar hoe kwam de neanderthaler nu écht aan zijn einde? In dit boek gaan paleoantropologe Silvana Condemi en wetenschapsjournalist François Savatier op zoek naar het antwoord dat al decennialang wetenschappers en historici in de ban houdt. Hun boek, ondertussen in vijfentwintig talen vertaald, leest als een whodunit. Hoofdstuk na hoofdstuk volgen ze diverse sporen, sluiten pistes uit en boren er andere aan om zo een eeuwenoude puzzel te reconstrueren. Te midden dat minutieuze speurwerk strooien ze kwistig verhalen rond over de solidariteit die ervoor zorgde dat de neanderthaler het twintigduizend generaties uithield, over overleven in ijstijden en het eten van mensenvlees, maar ook … over de vermenging van de neanderthaler met de homo sapiens en de daaruit volgende genetische band tussen ‘ons’ en ‘hem’. Populaire wetenschap van de bovenste plank. Rijkelijk geïllustreerd.

Biological anthropology. Palaeoanthropology --- Homo neanderthalensis [extinct species] --- Prehistory --- prehistorie --- Neanderthalers

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The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Neanderthal fossils gave reason for an international and interdisciplinary symposium in Bonn/Germany. The present book arose from this congress and focuses on multiple aspects of archaeological investigation on Neanderthal lifeways. In-depth studies of top-ranking scientists provide a detailed and comprehensive survey of contemporary research on our Pleistocene relatives. Examinations and debates are embedded in a variety of regions and time frames. Chronology, subsistence, land use, and cultural adaptations among late Neanderthals form the major trajectories of the book. The wide range of approaches involved, leads to an increasing understanding of the facets of and the variability of Neanderthal behavioural patterns.   The present volume is complemented by a paleontologically orientated publication of the same congress (edited by Gerd-Christian Weniger and Silvana Condemi).

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Archeology --- culturele antropologie --- milieubeheer --- archeologie --- Neanderthalers

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The aim of this book is to provide a new insight on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romaní rockshelter (north-eastern Spain). Due to the sedimentary dynamics that formed the Romaní deposit, the occupation layers are characterized by a high temporal resolution, which makes it easier to interprete the archaeological data in behavioural terms. In addition, the different analytical domains (geoarchaeology, lithic technology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy, anthracology, palaeontology) are addressed from a spatial perspective that is basic to understand human behaviour, but also to evaluate the behavioural inferences in the framework of the archaeological formation processes.

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- General palaeontology --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Archeology --- Europees recht --- archeologie --- paleontologie --- Neanderthalers --- Spain