Jennifer C. French (University of Liverpool)

Palaeolithic Europe

A Demographic and Social Prehistory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and paleogenetic data to present a unique demographic perspective on this period of early prehistory, combining social and evolutionary approaches. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in archaeology and biological anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge World Archaeology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 177mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9781108710060
• ISBN-10: 1108710069
• Artikelnr.: 68802812

Autorenporträt

Jennifer C. French holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. Her research on humanity's early demographic history has been funded by the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust and the Wenner-Gren Foundation and published in Science, Evolutionary Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Towards a Social Palaeodemography of Early Prehistory
2. Stones, Bones, and Genes: A Palaeodemographic Database
3. Hunter-Gatherer Demography
4. Visitation: The First European Populations (~1.8 million-300,000 years ago)
5. Residency: The Neanderthals and their Neighbours (~300,000-40,000 years ago)
6. Expansion: The Arrival of Homo Sapiens and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000 years ago-35,000 years ago)
7. Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000 years ago-15,000 years ago)
8. Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society.