Red deer antler technology and early modern humans in Southeast Europe: an experimental study

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
José-Miguel Tejero ◽  
Marianne Christensen ◽  
Pierre Bodu
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Red Deer ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Deer Antler ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans

The emergence of bone-working and ornamental art in the Caucasian Upper Palaeolithic

Antiquity ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (324) ◽  
pp. 299-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liubov V. Golovanova ◽  
Vladimir B. Doronichev ◽  
Naomi E. Cleghorn
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
New Work ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
Ornamental Art

New work from the Caucasus is revolutionising the timing and character of the shift from Neanderthals to early Modern humans in Eurasia. Here the authors reveal a powerful signal of that change from excavations at Mezmaiskaya: the abrupt appearance of a well-formed bone industry and ornaments.

scholarly journals Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans

Science ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 325 (5942) ◽  
pp. 859-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Brown ◽  
C. W. Marean ◽  
A. I. R. Herries ◽  
Z. Jacobs ◽  
C. Tribolo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans

Dentoalveolar paleopathology of the early modern humans from Zhirendong, South China

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Lacy ◽  
Xiu-Jie Wu ◽  
Chang-Zu Jin ◽  
Da-Gong Qin ◽  
Yan-Jun Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
South China ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans

The Eight Animals in Shakespeare; or, Before the Human

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Title I ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Single Digit ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Town

The poverty of the single-digit sum in my title, I trust, raises a brow. After all, the ubiquity of those we conventionally shepherd into the enclosure of the term animals stands out as a feature of both Shakespearean material and early modern texts generally. The animal footprints in this archive result from the frequency with which early moderns encountered living and butchered animals in their daily routines. Hardly an urban, rural, or domestic scene was painted without them. For illustration, Jan van der Heyden's cityscape of Amsterdam's main public square dramatizes the civic visibility of dogs and horses (alongside the town hall and the New Church) and muddies any distinction between beasts of burden and creatures of leisure—especially beneath that vast early modern sky (see next page). In a prescient intimation of modernity, Thomas More's Utopia imagined a noncitizen, butchering class performing its labors, deemed too brutal for citizens to witness, out of sight (75). Early modern humans had more contact with more animals than most of us now do. For a species with weak ears and a terrible nose, out of sight is out of mind.

Troubling the Neandertals: A Reply to Zilhã and Trinkaus

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Macro Langbroek
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
Spatio Temporal

We cannot but agree with the basic contentions of Langbroek's paper that 1) the replacement of Neandertals by early modern humans in Europe is best understood from a perspective of historical contingency and 2) that it must have had a lot to do with the ‘very dynamic spatio-temporal redrawings of the population maps of Europe during the Weichsel glacial’ against the background of ‘the emergence of increasing climatological instability during the later part of OIS 3, with significant fluctuations at relatively short timescales’. This is the kind of approach we have been advocating to effectively supersede the reductionist ‘superiority’ paradigm that has dominated the literature on Neandertal extinction for the last twenty years.

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