Early Aurignacians

Neanderthals were hunter-gatherers who moved across Europe with the advance and retreat of the Ice Age glaciers. Their total population probably never exceeded 100,000. From 180,000 to 130,000years ago large glaciers covered much of Europe and Neanderthal remains are scarce. After 130,000years ago, tool technology developed rapidly to become the classic Neanderthal technology called the

Through the use of phylogenetics and cladistics evolutionary theory has taken off, and our understanding of how past societies and groups evolved has changed tenfold. To use phylogenetics and cladistics in your research it still takes a lot of practice and knowledge to obtain the right results, and to understand them. The programs that preform the phylogenetic and cladistics calculations were not meant for archaeology, as they need to be manipulated for our needs. Phylogenetics and cladistics are the best options out there to help understand evolutionary theory in an archaeological context. They provide mathematical evidence of

According to “Decoding Neanderthals’ they were consider primitive; without language and art or a high level of thinking. These species hunted by brute force with a simple stone tool. Also, that their intellect cannot be associated or compared with modern humans because their behavior was too way primitive. They began to disappear 40,000 years ago as modern humans came on the scene, stated by “Decoding Neanderthals” documentary movie. However, according to the genetic evidence shows a mysterious presence related with the modern humans genes. Neanderthal’s psychical features demonstrate some facts that these Homo species possessed intelligence. For example, big noses, bulky physiques-adaptation to cold, shorter than Homo sapiens, but bones were thicker, oblique forehead and heavy eyebrows. Also, often Neanderthal’s craniums are larger than modern humans. They had larger ankle joint, elbow joint and shorter forearm, broader ribcage and lower cranium. They were the most advanced group of primates, except modern humans. Neanderthals weren’t fewer intelligent than modern people; they had clothes and had some kind of language. Neanderthal living space showed complex use of the instrument, abstract thoughts and speech, burial of their dead and manufactured primitive art objects. Some stereotypes against these species are that they had limited stone tools and no art or personal ornaments; therefore they seemed less advanced than modern humans. Also, stereotyping their intelligence

Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted for well over 100,000 years.  Then suddenly Homo neandertalensis began to die out and surrender the earth to Homo sapiens.  Paleontologists and anthropologists have entertained several possibilities to the causes of this event: interbreeding among Neanderthals and humans, competition for natural resources, and Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest.”  What the real cause has been has plagued scientists for years. Now, due to an international research team from Germany, those possibilities have been even further deduced, making it easier to pinpoint the exact reason Homo neandertalensis became extinct.

If Neanderthals did in fact comport themselves in ways once thought to distinguish anatomically modern humans and enable the latter’s rise to world domination, that similarity makes the Neanderthals’ decline and eventual extinction all the more mystifying. One theory is that H. sapiens had a broader variety of tools that may have enhanced their ability to forage. When they brought their superior technology with them out of Africa and into Eurasia, they were thus better able to exploit the environment more effectively than the resident Neanderthals could. Still, the arrival of H. sapiens did not equal an instant demise for Neanderthals. The latest attempt to track their decline, carried out by Thomas Higham of Oxford and his colleagues, applied

The early influences of Rome, according to the text, were the people of Etruia and Greece. It is said that it all started in the southernmost Etruscan centers[1]. These places, Caere, Tarquinii, Vulci, and Veii, were the first city-states to be formed. It wasn’t long before the great city of Rome would rise. In this essay, we will briefly comment on the founders of Rome and their influences. Taking each part of history step by step hoping to uncover the secrets of Rome’s first steps towards become a great empire.

Neanderthals faced harsh climates there were parts of Northern Asia and Europe that had series of Ice ages, because of this man had to step up and create something to keep their body heat. With the creation of tools in order to hunt they found themselves hunting deer, mammoths and bears which provided large, thick and furry coats for them. At first their clothing tended to be simple by making holes in the head and arm area letting them drape all over their bodies. Later on it can be seen that they grew more and more sophisticated by creating strips to wrap their clothing in place sort of like belts.

The Etruscans, also know as the “Etrusci,” named by the Romans, the “Tyrrhenoi,” named by the Greeks, and the “Rasenna,” and “Rasna,” named by themselves, occupied the Italian peninsula north of Rome during much of the first millennium BC. Etruria was an urbanized civilization with their own customs, divinities, and beliefs. In order to gain knowledge about Etruscan history the main sources included, Roman literature and their impressive tombs. The cities were not well preserved which brought upon the issue of reconstructing it later.

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Phoenicians- a major element of the the ancient population of Syria-Palestine, referred to themselves as Can’ani, during a period of violent upheaval and mass migrations many Canaanite cities were destroyed, by 1100 B.C.E. their territory had shrunk to a narrow strip of present day Lebanon, where new political forms were adopted and new forms of commerce and manufacture were necessary for survival. Territory was split up into city states; Byblos Berytus, Sidon, and Tyre, thriving trade in raw materials and luxury goods brought considerable wealth and gave them an important role in international politics, developed an earlier Canaanite model into an “alphabetic” system with around two dozen symbols which represented a sound, very few records

These were designated units 1–7 and were correlated across space with 14C dates or archaeological material. Two of these units were subdivided into temporally discrete packages identified in multiple places. These subdivisions were were assigned lower case alphabetic suffixes (e.g., 3a, 3b, etc.). Subscripts “v” and “f” indicate valley and alluvial fan facies, respectively. Unit 1 dates to the early Holocene, unit 2 to the middle Holocene, unit 3 to the late Holocene, and units 4–7 to the latest

This article describes how the Taranuelo dig, which is located in Spain, has surprised archaeologists not only for the rich amounts of well-preserved artifacts it has, but also because of their origins. According to Sebastian Celestino, director of the Merida Institute of Archaeology, and his co-director Esther Rodriguez, the hoard of bronze artifacts like the grills and cauldron found might point towards the lost Tartessian culture which disappeared around the end of the fifth century. Celestino who has been studying the site for 20 years, believes that the main clue lies within the bronze artifact found in the site with two doves separated by an outstretched bull hide,

Introduction The Upper Palaeolithic was an explosion of cultural and behavioural changes that were not present in the lower and middle Palaeolithic periods. These are things such as the creation of art and figurines and the development of technology in tools that were used. These changes show how communities and individuals were progressing into what we now consider modern human behaviours… Art

Examining landforms is essential to archaeology for understanding spatial contexts of sites and interpreting relationships to other sites. “Space and landscapes define the resources available to any human group, and landform changes through time are related variously to changes in other elements of the environment – climate, hydrography, and biota” (Dincauze 2000). Studying landscapes provides information on human community existence and resources available to people. “Understanding landforms at all scales aids in correlating a site location with other coeval surfaces across space and thereby interpreting the spatial component of human behavior” (Dincauze 2000). How people responded to their environment and used their landscape remains important

There is evidence to suggest that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens had coexisted for approximately 35-40,000 years, (Fagan 2010) from around 60,000 years ago to 25,000 years ago when they finally went extinct (Gibbon 2001). Anthropologists are still uncertain what the cause of their extinction was. This paper will analyze three main theories of Neanderthal extinction. The first theory is the competition theory, which claims that the Homo sapiens and Neanderthals had to compete for resources, ultimately leading to their demise. The second theory I will discuss is the climate change theory, which claims that Homo sapiens lived while Neanderthals died because they were better adapted to the climate. The last theory I will discuss is