Beskrivelse
INDHOLD: How do we know what we know? – The Neanderthal idea goes abroad. – Building the evidence. – A French connection. – The wider time-frame. – The Palaeolithic has arrived. – More Neanderthals. – The problem of “otherness”. – A global perspective. – Upheaval in the Levant. – Neanderworld – the Ice Age world. – Europe. An elemental battleground. – Identifying the ice age. – Dividing the ice age. – Data from the deep sea. – Ice age environments. – Polar deserts. – Tundra. – The mammoth steppe grasslands. – Forest and woodland. – Neanderthal-body-building. – Neanderthal stature. – Neanderthal muscles. – It’s all in the head. – The Neanderthal face. – Neanderthal skin. – Neanderthal clothing. – Neanderthal society. – Evidence and interpretation. – Evidence from France. – Social hierarchy. – Neanderthal food. – Eating people. – The evidence for Neanerthal language. – – Archaeological evidence. – Cave to Grave. Birth and death in Neanderworld. – Female physiology. – Birth and beyond. – A casse study. – Death and ritual. – The great leap forward. – Evolution of burial and religion. – Buried with flowers? – Burial goods ? – The arms race. Technology and hunting. – Understanding stone tolls. – Making fire. – Hunting ang hunting techniques. – Reading the bones. – Small game looms large. – The incomers. – A common ancestry. – Out Africa. – New views on human ancestry. – The first European humans. – Culture of Shcoks. – Cultured Cro-Magnons. – Cro-Magnon tools. – Creative expression. – Trading places. – Shifting populations. – Conflict? – Peaceful coexistence ? – The beginning and the end. – Exile. – Hybrid species ? – Extinction. – Fact or fiction. – Genetic analysis. – Forensic and fossil DNA. – European genes today. – Blood, spit and words. – Glossary. – Index. –