The humans who went extinct : why Neanderthals died out and we survived /
Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and...
| Основен автор: | Finlayson, Clive, 1955- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=298462 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Humans who went extinct. |
| Резюме: |
Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of Africa some 100,000 years ago. But was it really as simple as that? Clive Finlayson reminds us that the Neanderthals were another kind of human, and their culture was not so very different from that of our. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-259) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191571176 0191571172 9780199239184 0199239185 |