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"The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of 'a year in the life': how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, and available resources. Current research has provided increasingly robust archaeological and Quaternary Science records, but there are ongoing uncertainties as to both the earliest Europeans' specific survival strategies and behaviours, and the character of their dispersals into Europe. In short, how sustained and 'successful' were the individual phases of European occupation by Lower Palaeolithic hominins and what sorts of 'human' were they? Using a season-by-season chapter structure to explore, for example, the contrasting demands and opportunities of winter versus summer survival, Hosfield explores how foods and other resources would vary across the four seasons in quantity and quality, and the resulting implications for hominin behaviours. Text boxes provide the background on key issues, and the book draws on a range of supporting evidence including technology (e.g. the nature of Lower Palaeolithic stone tools; the evidence for organic tools), hominin life history (e.g. the length of infant dependency; the nature of 'parenting'; the implications of different mating models; the Social Brain Hypothesis), cognitive studies (e.g. brain scanning research into possible planning capabilities) and potential bias in the archaeological record (e.g. in terms of what is and isn't preserved). By testing the likelihood of different scenarios by comparing short-term, site-based insights with long-term, regional trends, Hosfield is able to put forward ideas on how our earliest European ancestors survived and what their lives were like"--

Paleolithic period, Lower -- Europe --- Paleolithic period, Lower --- Prehistoric peoples --- Chopper-Chopping Tool Complex --- Lower Paleolithic period --- Stone age

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NOT IN THE LIBRARY --- Paleolithic period, Lower --- Hoxne Site (England). --- Chopper-Chopping Tool Complex --- Lower Paleolithic period --- Stone age --- Hoxne Site (England) --- England --- Antiquities

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Archeology --- Bandkeramik [Neolithic culture or style] --- archaeological sites --- archaeological objects --- chopping tools [prehistoric cutting tools] --- European Neolithic [culture or period] --- Flanders

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The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of 'a year in the life': how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, and available resources. Current research has provided increasingly robust archaeological and Quaternary Science records, but there are ongoing uncertainties as to both the earliest Europeans' specific survival strategies and behaviours, and the character of their dispersals into Europe. In short, how sustained and 'successful' were the individual phases of European occupation by Lower Palaeolithic hominins and what sorts of 'human' where they?

History / Europe --- Science / Life Sciences / Evolution --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Paleolithic period, Lower. --- Chopper-Chopping Tool Complex --- Lower Paleolithic period --- Stone age --- Europe. --- Northern Europe.

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Paleolithic period, Lower --- Human beings --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Chopper-Chopping Tool Complex --- Lower Paleolithic period --- Stone age --- Migrations --- Europe --- Antiquities --- -Human beings --- -Paleolithic period, Lower --- -Antiquities --- -Congresses --- Congresses --- Paléolithique inférieur --- Homme --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Antiquités