Giving Neandertals Their Due
Similarities with modern humans shift the image of the caveman brute
New studies suggest that Neandertals may have hunted extensively and made personal ornaments for symbolic communication.
References:
dErrico, F., J. Zilhão, et al. 1998. Neanderthal acculturation in Western Europe? Current Anthropology 39(June):S1.
Marean, C., and S.Y. Kim. 1998. Mousterian large-mammal remains from Kobeh Cave. Current Anthropology 39(June):S79.
Shea, J.J. 1998. Neandertal and early modern human behavioral variability. Current Anthropology 39(June):S45.
Further Readings:
Bower, B. 1997. Neandertals make big splash in gene pool. Science News 152(July 19):37.
______. 1997. German mine yields ancient hunting spears. Science News 151(March 1):134.
Churchill, S.E. 1998. Comment to "Neandertal and early modern human behavioral variability." Current Anthropology 39(June):S61.
Hublin, J., et al. 1996. A late Neanderthal associated with Upper Paleolithic artefacts. Nature 381(May 16):224.
Mellars, P. 1998. Comment to "Neanderthal acculturation in Western Europe?" Current Anthropology 39(June):S25.
Shreeve, J. 1995. The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins. New York: William Morrow and Co.
Simek, J. 1998. Steps to an evolution of mind. Antiquity 72(June):444.
Stiner, M. 1995. Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neandertal Ecology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Stringer, C., and C. Gamble. 1993. In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins. New York: Thames & Hudson.
Trinkaus, E., and P. Shipman. 1992. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind. New York: Alfred E. Knopf.
Additional information about Neandertals can be found at the University of Illinois' Web site at http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/b-sklar/Neander.html.
Photos of paleolithic art can be found at http://www.iquat.u-bordeaux.fr/paleo-art.
Sources:
Steven E. Churchill
Duke University
Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy
Box 90383
Durham, NC 27708Francesco dErrico
Charge de Recherche au CNRS
UMR 5808 du CNRS
Institut de Prehistoire et de Geologie du Quaternaire
Av. des Facultes
33405 Talence
France
E-mail: f.derrico@iquat.u-bordeaux.frCurtis W. Marean
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Anthropology Department
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364
E-mal: cmearean@datalab2.sbs.sunysb.eduPaul Mellars
Cambridge University
Department of Archaeology
Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 8DZ
United KingdomJohn J. Shea
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Anthropology Department
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364
E-mail: jjshea@ccmail.sunysb.eduMary C. Stiner
University of Arizona
Department of Anthropology
Building 30
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030Christopher B. Stringer
Natural History Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
United KingdomIan Tattersall
American Museum of Natural History
Department of Anthropology
79th Street & Central Park West
New York, NY 10024Erik Trinkaus
Washington University
Department of Anthropology
Campus Box 1114
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130Randall White
New York University
Department of Anthropology
25 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003João Zilhão
Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia
Av. da India, 136
P-1300 Lisboa
Portugal
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