Human Societies Facing Climate Change: Volume 3

Contents

Foreword

 

Avant-propos

Quantification of morphological variability expressed by a “log sem” statistic in the context of human evolution (Australopithecus, Paranthropus and early Homo) – Francis Thackeray

 

L’importance du déterminisme climatique dans l’évolution de l’Humanité – François Djindjian

 

Cultural evolution as the emperor’s new clothes – Martin Oliva

 

Le Mézinien : un exemple d’adaptation climatique et culturelle aux steppes froides d’Europe orientale: état actuel des recherches, des discussions et des interprétations – Lioudmila Iakovleva

 

The evidence for fishing in the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Northwestern Poland – Jacek Kabaciński

The turn to sedentary life at the edge of Southeast and Central Europe – Eszter Bánffy

Cultural changes consequential to the formation of Neolithic way of living: The Upper Euphrates – Upper Tigris Basin – Mehmet Özdoğan

 

The Rajajil Cultures. Socio-economic and cultural evolution interacting with climate oscillations in Northwestern Arabia (5th – early 4th millennium BCE) – Hans Georg K. Gebel

Leceia, Moita da Ladra and Outeiro Redondo: Similarities and differences between three walled sites of Portuguese Extremadura – João Luís Cardoso

 

The large stones of the Neolithic Age. Menhirs and stelae – Svend Hansen

About the Author

François Djindjian, Honorary Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, is a specialist in the theory and methods of archaeology and in the European Upper Palaeolithic. He is the current president of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.