Book contents
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Cambridge World Archaeology
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Text Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and Permissions
- 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 in Europe and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000–35,000 years ago)
- 7 Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000–15,000 years ago)
- Chapter 8 Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society
- Glossary
- References
- Index
6 - Expansion: The Arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000–35,000 years ago)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2021
Book contents
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Cambridge World Archaeology
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Text Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and Permissions
- 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 in Europe and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000–35,000 years ago)
- 7 Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000–15,000 years ago)
- Chapter 8 Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 examines the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition which marks the third stage of the demographic prehistory of Palaeolithic Europe: expansion. This stage coincides with two important events – the extinction of the Neanderthals and the arrival into Europe by early Homo sapiens. These events are examined through the lens of the expansion of social lives and the increased interconnectivity of regional groups by early European Homo sapiens.
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- Palaeolithic EuropeA Demographic and Social Prehistory, pp. 172 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021