Earliest Italy An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic /

• Main Author: Mussi, Margherita. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; History, general.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

A synthesis of Italian prehistory spanning more than 600,000 years beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers. The author treats such issues as the development of social structure, the rise and fall of specific cultural traditions, climate change, and environmenta...

Table of Contents:

• The Land and the Scientists
• The Earliest Settlement
• Real Colonization
• On Neandertals and Caves
• Modems versus Neandertals
• Fully Equipped Hunter-Gatherers
• The Great Shift.