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"THE NEANDERTHALS" Friedemann Schrenk and Stephanie Müller, in collaboration with Christine Hemm "The Neanderthals are among the most mysterious relatives of Homo sapiens. Were they dull club-swinging musclemen or beings with developed social behavior, the ability to speak, plan precisely, and even develop views on the afterlife? For many, Neanderthals represent primitive humans, but new discoveries suggest this image needs revision. One hundred thousand years ago in ice-age Europe emerged people who managed well with difficult climates—Neanderthals. They formed organized societies, hunted mammoths, made fire, passed knowledge, cared for the old and disabled, buried their dead, and placed gifts on graves. Yet they became extinct despite cultural abilities. This richly illustrated book written for general audiences provides a competent look at Neanderthal history, living conditions, and culture." PEOPLES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD A series standing as the first port of call for anyone wanting to know more about historically important peoples of the ancient world and early middle ages. Reliable, up-to-date with special attention paid to their enduring legacy and influence. THE ROMANS An Introduction Antony Kamm THE PERSIANS Maria Brosius THE TROJANS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS Trevor Bryce MYCENAEANS Rodney Castleden THE EGYPTIANS An Introduction Robert Morkot THE BABYLONIANS An Introduction Gwendolyn Leick THE ISRAELITES An Introduction Antony Kamm Forthcoming: THE GREEKS An Introduction (Second Edition) Robin Sowerby Ключевые слова: ice-age man, bone, ?nds, burial, evolution, bone ute, middle pleistocene, developed, modern standard, press, lived, prussian rhineland, projecting face, left, early, site, time, neander, age year, stephanie mller, europeans, cave painting, leakey, man, group, beck, wa, homo erectus, europe, life, discovered, birch pitch, place, african, lake turkana, heidelberg man, ha, man classic, noble cro-magnon, hand, geographical variant, early human, mortal remains, humans, cave, specie, rst europeans, modern human, semicircular canal, ice age, history neanderthal, view, west bank, square kilometer, neander valley, genus homo, hominid, attachment point, limestone cliff, ice-age, tropical rainforest, kilometer, skull cap, development, erectus, climate, child, earliest phase, neanderthal, remains, european, prominent characteristic, form, valley, dna, cold, australopithecus afarensis, musical instrument, modern eve, york, primitive, sapiens, turkana boy, vogelherd cave, los huesos, period, la, appeared, origin, individual, reconstruction, people, classic neanderthal, geology archaeology, discovery, der murr, modern, piltdown man, die, homo habilis, uncovered, fossil, elderberries mammoths, evidence, appears, le, long, study, homo, region, red ochre, nal analysis, homo oresiensis, food, menschen, pleistocene, homo steinheimensis, homo sapiens, family, homo neanderthalensis, changing climate, habitat, existence, year, ice-age human, point, chapelle, tool, hesitate long, covered, distant neighbor, homo heidelbergensis, close proximity, oldest ancestor, built, area, ?nd, gran dolina, teeth, regarded, stone, skeleton, classic, transitional form, oldest, sleeping sickness, human family, robust build, primitive human, level, ancestor, western france, modern perspective, symbolic consumption, feldhof grotto, northern israel, heidelbergensis, complete, skull, warm, anatomical feature, kilometer southwest, proven, human, elephant rib, brain, olduvai gorge, lionman statue, stone akes, hyoid bone, cave dweller, heidelberg, africa, fossil human, direct ancestor, history, cromer complex, animal, stone core, ice, bp, continued, assumed, family tree, upper body, question, age, chapelle-aux-saints, neanderthals, average, animal kingdom, settlement, dead, mitochondrial dna, cell nucleus, considerable length, theory, artistic ability, population, der, broken bone, living creature, ferrassie, ?rst, stone implement, body, fragment, anthropoid ape, large, characteristic, jaw, supraorbital ridge