The Cave of Fontechevade - Recent Excavations and their Paleoanthropological Implications (Hardcover, New)

Summary of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Fontechevade, France, between 1994 and 1998. The excavation team address major problems raised by earlier excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier excavations produced two sets of problematic data : first, the Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Tayacian, that differs in fundamental ways from other contemporary industries, second, the human skull fragment that has been interpreted as modern in nature but that apparently dates from the last interglacial, long before there is any evidence for humans from any other site in Europe. By applying modern stratigraphic, lithic, faunal, geological, geophysical, and radiometric analyses, the interdisciplinary team demonstrates that the Tayacian 'industry' is a product of site formation processes and that the actual age of the Fontechevade I fossil is compatible with other evidence for the arrival of modern humans in Europe.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2009
Authors:	Philip G Chase • Andre Debenath • Harold L. Dibble • Shannon P. McPherron
Dimensions:	260 x 185 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-89844-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Palaeontology > General
LSN:	0-521-89844-7
Barcode:	9780521898447

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