(Ebook) Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic by Francesca Romagnoli (editor), Florent Rivals (editor), Stefano Benazzi (editor) ISBN 9780128214282, 0128214287

(Ebook) Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic by Francesca Romagnoli (editor), Florent Rivals (editor), Stefano Benazzi (editor) ISBN 9780128214282, 0128214287

Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Paleolithicprovides comprehensive knowledge on Neanderthals who lived throughout the European and Asian continents. The book synthesizes historical information about the study of Middle Paleolithic populations and presents current debates about their genetics, subsistence, technology, social and cognitive behaviors. It focuses on the last phase of Neanderthal settlements and presents the main patterns of modern humans across Europe. Written by international experts on the Middle Paleolithic who have conducted innovative studies in the last three decades, this book explores the implications of interactions between different human species, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and Sapiens.In addition, the book discusses the diversity and variability of human adaptations and behaviors in the changing climate and environment of the Late Pleistocene, and the relationship between these behaviors, demography and cognitive capabilities.