Excavations at Schöningen and paradigm shifts in human evolution

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 89, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-17

  Conard, Nicholas J ^a   Serangeli, Jordi ^a   Böhner, Utz ^b   Starkovich, Britt M ^a,c   Miller, Christopher E ^a   Urban, Brigitte ^d   Van Kolfschoten, Thijs ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Butchery; Hunters and gatherers; Lower Paleolithic; Organic technology; Settlements dynamics; Symbolic communication

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTER-GATHERER; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC; PARADIGM SHIFT; PRESERVATION; SYMBOLISM;

GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; SCHONINGEN;

EQUIDAE; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; DIET; EVOLUTION; FIRE; GERMANY; HOMINID; HUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; DIET; FIRES; GERMANY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84949293094     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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