Becoming Neanderthals: The Earlier British Middle Palaeolithic

by Beccy Scott and Rebecca Scott

It is now widely accepted that by the later Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthals possessed a wide range of social and practical skills. More recently, researchers have become interested in how these skills actually emerged; in effect, the challenge now is to document the process by which Middle Pleistocene hominids "became Neanderthals". This book explores the development of classically Neanderthal behaviours in Europe between MIS 9-6, focusing on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184217973X
• ISBN13: 9781842179734
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 11.1"