The Neanderthals
A Social Synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6045263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Davies (0000-0002-7783-9782, Oxford Brookes University, corresponding author), Underdown (0000-0001-6056-2353, Oxford Brookes University), Simon Underdown |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-164 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774306000096 |
| OpenAlex | W2105432109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 58 |
The Neanderthals have long fascinated archaeologists and anthropologists alike. Similarity to us coupled with clear differences has produced endless theorizing. This article reviews the background to such ideas. It examines the current lines of thought about Neanderthals and explores the validity of the conclusions. The ultimate aim is the construction of a social synthesis, a solid foundation upon which the validity of inferences regarding Neanderthal cognitive ability and behavioural complexity may be examined
Archaeology · Cognition · Foundation (evidence · Neanderthal · Similarity (geometry · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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Prehistorical International Relations
Care Among the Neandertals
Storied landscapes makes us (Modern) Human
Autism, the Integrations of ‘Difference’ and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour
Neandertal Social Structure
The thinking Neanderthals
The origin of symbolic behavior of Middle Palaeolithic humans
The Cradle of Thought
Neanderthals and us
Rehabilitating Neandertals
A Brief Overview of the Last 10 Years of Major Late Pleistocene Discoveries in the Old World
Evaluating the effect of plowing on the archaeological record
The effect of trauma on Neanderthal culture
Neanderthal genomics suggests a pleistocene time frame for the first epidemiologic transition
Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia
Calculated or caring? Neanderthal healthcare in social context
What's a Mother to Do
Surprisingly rapid growth in Neanderthals
Whither the Neanderthals?
Paleolithic Population Growth Pulses Evidenced by Small Animal Exploitation
Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered
Stable isotope evidence for increasing dietary breadth in the European mid-Upper Paleolithic
Neanderthals and Modern Humans
New perspectives on the Neanderthals
Slings and arrows of predaceous fortune
Adaptive radiations and dispersals in hominin evolutionary ecology
Spatial Patterning of Middle Paleolithic Sites
Looking into the demography of an Iron Age population in the Western Mediterranean. I. Mortality
A Case of Marked Bilateral Asymmetry in the Upper Limbs of an Upper Palaeolithic Male from Barma Grande (Liguria), Italy
The ecology of Neanderthals
Neanderthals
Reconstructing Middle Palaeolithic subsistence strategies in the South of France
Disappearing from the World
The Neanderthal Legacy
Neanderthal subsistence behaviours in Europe
The ecology and adaptation of Neanderthals during the non-analogue environment of Oxygen Isotope Stage 3
The Exploitation of Plant Resources by Neanderthals in Amud Cave (Israel)
Long bone robusticity and subsistence behaviour among Later Stone Age foragers of the forest and fynbos biomes of South Africa
Mousterian vegetal food in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel
Makers of the early Aurignacian of Europe
Late Pleistocene human femoral diaphyseal curvature
Can paleopathology provide evidence for “compassion”
The evolution of human speech
Investigation into the relationship between perikymata counts and crown formation times
The basicranium of fossil hominids as an indicator of their upper respiratory systems
Language and modern human origins
The Neanderthal taxonomic position
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes as tracers of change in diet breadth during Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in Europe
The impossible coincidence. A single-species model for the origins of modern human behavior in Europe
The Interpretation of Cultures
The revolution that wasn't
Femoral neck-shaft angles of the Qafzeh-Skhul early modern humans, and activity levels among immature Near Eastern Middle Paleolithic hominids
Subsistence behaviours in a Middle Palaeolithic site in Poland
Change and continuity in subsistence during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in the Ach Valley of Swabia (south-west Germany)
Eat what is there
The evolution of human life history
Speaking through stones
High resolution Neanderthals? Interpreting middle palaeolithic intrasite spatial data
The Peopling of the New World
On the Suggested Bone Flute from Slovenia
Taphonomy of a Suggested Middle Paleolithic Bone Flute from Slovenia
Neocortex Size, Group Size, and the Evolution of Language
On Mousterian and Natufian Burials in the Levant
On Neanderthal Speech and Neanderthal Extinction
Mortuary Ritual and Mortuary Remains
Increased breathing control
Primatology as an essential basis for biological anthropology
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |