This study represents the first integrated approach to the lithic raw materials exploited by the
Neanderthals that occupied the Abric Romaní site (NE Iberia). Focusing on chert as the most …

Creativity and innovation are conventionally viewed as consequences of individual mental
processes and actions. Certain time and places are also remarkable for the pace of culture …

What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we
survive, and other human species fail? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the …

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current
knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

It is often the case in interdisciplinary accounts of human evolution that archaeological data
are either ignored or treated superficially. This article sets out to redress this position by …

In the course of the last 500,000 years, the Neandertal lineage was the first human group to
extensively colonize the middle latitudes of western Eurasia up to 55° N. Although …

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination,
without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the …

The archaeological sequence from the Orgnac 3 site presents the opportunity to observe
behavioral aspects characterizing the beginnings of the main Neanderthal technological …

During the Middle Palaeolithic in the south-eastern Massif Central and the bordering Rhone
Valley, humans collected almost all their raw materials from various secondary outcrop …