By Katerina Harvati, Mirjana Roksandic
This edited quantity systematically reports the proof for early human presence in a single of the main suitable geographic areas of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, a space that has been the most important in shaping the process human evolution in Europe, yet whose paleoanthropological list is poorly identified. the first goal of this e-book is to exhibit new paleoanthropological (human paleontological and paleolithic) study performed within the area.
The quantity is geared up into 3 sections. the 1st one offers with the human fossil list from Greece, the critical Balkans, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. the second one part offers the paleolithic checklist of an identical international locations. within the 3rd half, the authors offer a synthesis of present paleoenvironmental facts for the Balkans. Chapters summarize and systematize the to be had human fossil proof, research their context, and position them in the framework of our realizing of human evolution in Europe and past, in addition to current new analyses of present human fossils. This publication can be of curiosity to execs, top undergraduate and graduate scholars in paleoanthropology, human paleontology and paleolithic archaeology and in numerous similar fields, together with human version and variation, paleontology and biogeography. it is going to even be applicable as a reference booklet for complicated undergraduate and graduate classes on human evolution and ecu paleoanthropology.
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