Ciclo di seminari e laboratori didattici organizzati in occasione della XII Settimana della Cultu... more Ciclo di seminari e laboratori didattici organizzati in occasione della XII Settimana della Cultura (20-22 Aprile 2010)
Journal of anthropological sciences = Rivista di antropologia : JASS / Istituto italiano di antropologia, 2014
Different categories of finds reveal how Neanderthals have manifested at different moments behavi... more Different categories of finds reveal how Neanderthals have manifested at different moments behaviors not ascribable to the utilitarian sphere, but to the aesthetic or symbolic. When the majority of this evidence dates to the few millennia that preceded the spread of Anatomically Modern Humans in Europe, these are grounds to continue the debate regarding the emergence of complex behavior, seen as an autonomous phenomenon of Neanderthal man or as the result of contact with immigrant populations. Re-examination of pebbles or flaked stones, a large part of such evidence, using a rigorous technological and taphonomic approach integrated with experimental tests, has already revealed these materials to be insignificant or natural, rather than anthropic, in origin. The following work seeks to shed light on the uncertainty existing around those stones and lithic artefacts bearing surface lines and scratches; these are of doubtful anthropic origin, but have not, as yet, been definitively inte...
Ciclo di seminari e laboratori didattici organizzati in occasione della XII Settimana della Cultu... more Ciclo di seminari e laboratori didattici organizzati in occasione della XII Settimana della Cultura (20-22 Aprile 2010)
Journal of anthropological sciences = Rivista di antropologia : JASS / Istituto italiano di antropologia, 2014
Different categories of finds reveal how Neanderthals have manifested at different moments behavi... more Different categories of finds reveal how Neanderthals have manifested at different moments behaviors not ascribable to the utilitarian sphere, but to the aesthetic or symbolic. When the majority of this evidence dates to the few millennia that preceded the spread of Anatomically Modern Humans in Europe, these are grounds to continue the debate regarding the emergence of complex behavior, seen as an autonomous phenomenon of Neanderthal man or as the result of contact with immigrant populations. Re-examination of pebbles or flaked stones, a large part of such evidence, using a rigorous technological and taphonomic approach integrated with experimental tests, has already revealed these materials to be insignificant or natural, rather than anthropic, in origin. The following work seeks to shed light on the uncertainty existing around those stones and lithic artefacts bearing surface lines and scratches; these are of doubtful anthropic origin, but have not, as yet, been definitively inte...
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