Palaeolithic Europe - A Demographic and Social Prehistory

This book combines archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and paleogenetic data to present a unique demographic perspective on this period of early prehistory, combining social and evolutionary approaches. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in archaeology and biological anthropology.

List of contents

1. Towards a Social Palaeodemography of Early Prehistory; 2. Stones, Bones, and Genes: A Palaeodemographic Database; 3. Hunter-Gatherer Demography; 4. Visitation: The First European Populations (~1.8 million-300,000 years ago); 5. Residency: The Neanderthals and their Neighbours (~300,000-40,000 years ago); 6. Expansion: The Arrival of Homo Sapiens and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000 years ago-35,000 years ago); 7. Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000 years ago-15,000 years ago); 8. Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society.

About the author

Jennifer C. French holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. Her research on humanity's early demographic history has been funded by the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust and the Wenner-Gren Foundation and published in Science, Evolutionary Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Summary

This book combines archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and paleogenetic data to present a unique demographic perspective on this period of early prehistory, combining social and evolutionary approaches. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in archaeology and biological anthropology.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer C. French, Jennifer C. (University of Liverpool) French, FRENCH JENNIFER
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108492065
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49206-5
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Cambridge World Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, General & world history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Prehistoric archaeology