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Calpe 2001 Conference

NEANDERTHALS AND MODERN HUMANS IN LATE PLEISTOCENE EURASIA

Held at Gibraltar

From 16-19 August, 2001

THE CONFERENCE







Calpe 2001
Abstracts of Papers Presented
 

                                                            Session 1 – Ecology & Biogeography

Clive Finlayson, Geraldine Finlayson & Darren A. Fa

Review Paper and Session Introduction - Pandas, Dodos and Neanderthals: endangered species in the Quaternary red data book

 

Godfrey Hewitt

The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages

 

Jacques Blondel

Late Pleistocene environmental upheavals and the setting up of modern vertebrate communities

 

William Davies, Tjeerd van Andel & John Stewart

The Neanderthal Landscape – An Overview of the Results of the Stage 3 Project

 

Mary Stiner

Small-Game Use, the Broad Spectrum Revolution, and Paleolithic demography on the North and Eastern Mediterranean Rims

 

Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi & Francesco d’Errico

New evidence on the chronology and climatic framework of the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition

 

Robert Foley, Marta Mirazón Lahr and Cara Wall

Evolutionary geography of Late Pleistocene Hominins: the ecology of multiple dispersals

 

C-P Gleed-Owen

Faunal remains from the Gibraltar Caves: amphibians and reptiles in a Late Pleistocene refugium

 

A. Bouzouggar

The Late Middle Palaeolithic in North Africa and Iberian Upper Palaeolithic

 

Joaquin Rodríguez Vidal

El relieve de Gibraltar durante el Pleistoceno Superior y sus implicaciones paleográficas

 

Darren A. Fa, Clive Finlayson, Francisco Giles Pacheco, Geraldine Finlayson, José Aguilera García & Julio Aguilera García
Building Bridges: new perspectives on Out-of-Africa

 

Isabel Cáceres, Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo & Peter Andrews
Neanderthals in Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar


Eudald Carbonell

Review Paper and Session Introduction: Pre-Neanderthal and Neanderthal complexity

 

Randall White

The facts of the matter: evidence for symbolic expression in the Châtelperronian and Early Aurignacian

 

Joao Zilhao

The Lagar Velho child and the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Iberia

 

Nick Barton & Francisco Giles Pacheco

The Middle Palaeolithic: an unchanging continuum vs. trends towards ‘modernity’ from a southern Iberian perspective

 

Olga Soffer

Defining modernity, establishing rubicons, imagining the other – and the Neanderthal enigma

 

Steven Kuhn

Initial Upper Paleolithic Ornaments and Adaptations in the Northern Levant

 

Phillip Allsworth-Jones

The Szeletian revisited

 

Carolyn Szmidt

Neanderthal and early modern human technologies and subsistence in Mediterranean France: Integrative and comparative perspectives

 

Javier Baena Preysler

El paleolítico medio en el occidente de Cantabria (Spain): Nuevos datos sobre la ocupación y explotación del medio en la comarca de la Liébana

 

Joan García, Kenneth Martínez, Antoni Canals, Jordi Rosell, Ethel Allué, Diego Angelucci, Dolores García-Antón Tressierras, Rosa Huguet, Pamira Saladié

Las últimas ocupaciones del Paleolítico Medio final en el Noreste de la Península Ibérica: Las Fuentes de San Cristóbal (Veracruz, Huesca)

 

M. G. Chacon, M. C. Fernández, K. Martínez & J. M. Rando

Modelos de Ocupación de las comunidades humanas del Pleistoceno Superior en el nivel K (52.3 ± 2.6 Ka BP) del Abric Romaní (Capellades, Barcelona, España).

 

M. Vaquero

The hearth-related assemblages in Middle Palaeolithic sites: some evidences from the Abric Romani site.

Jesus Jordá

Radiocarbon dating of the Mousterian occupation (Late Pleistocene) at the Upper Jarama Valley (Central Spain)

 

Jose Maria Gutierrez Lopez, Antonio Santiago Perez, Clive Finlayson, Nick Barton & Francisco Giles Pacheco 

Paleolítico Superior en la Cueva de Gorham, Gibraltar.  Avance al estudio del registro arqueológico y arte parietal

 

Ana Baldomero Navarro, Miguel Cortés Sánchez, José E. Ferrer Palma, Ignacio Marques Merelo, María D. Simón Vallejo

Cueva Bajondillo (Torremolinos, Málaga) y el tránsito Paleolítico Medio - Superior en la mitad meridional de la Península Ibérica

 

Juan Carlos Vera Rodriguez

Las ocupaciones pleistocénicas de la Cueva de los Murciélagos de Zuheros (Córdoba, España)

 

Julià Maroto, David Ortega, Alba Solés, Raquel Pujadas, Sònia Ramió, Sara de Haro & Josep Fiego
Los ùltimos neandertales en el noreste de la Península Ibérica: la cueva de los Ermitons

                                                     Session 3 – Evolution

Chris Stringer (Chair)

Review Paper and Session Introduction – New perspectives on Neanderthal evolution and extinction

 

Erik Trinkaus

The Neandertal Paradox

 

Will Goodwin & Igor Ovchinnikov, Anders Götherström, Galina P. Romanova, Viktor M. Kharitonov & Kerstin Lidén

Neanderthals Mitochondrial DNA

 

Yoel Rak

The Galilee Skull (the Zuttiyeh frontal) in the Context of the Levantine Hominid Record

 

Ralf Schmitz

New excavations in the cave sediments of the 'Kleine Feldhofer Grotte' and 'Feldhofer Kirche' (Neandertal, Germany)

 

Giorgio Manzi 

How different were they from us in cranial morphology? Inferring about ontogeny  and phylogeny in Neandertals vs. modern humans

 

Christoph Zollikofer & Marcia Ponce de Leon

Thick bones and thin plate splines: The role of landmark-free and landmark-based morphometrics in the investigation of Neanderthal morphology

 

Marcia Ponce de Leon & Christoph Zollikofer

Cranial Growth in Neanderthals: Developmental or functional constraints?

David Serre, Matthias Krings, Maja Paunovic´, Cristian Capelli, Frank Tshentscher, Helga Geisert, Sonja Meyer, Arndt von Haesler, Karl Grossschmidt, Göran Possnert, Svante Pääbo

Neanderthal genetic diversity.

 

Maria Haber Uriarte

Frontal bone fragment from Mousterian Horá Cave (Granada, Spain)

 

Francesco Mallegni & Giandonato Tartarelli

The Neandertals of Italian peninsula: demography, morphological traits and pathology

 

Emiliano Carnieri

Microwears analysis of Neandertalian teeth from the Italian peninsula


Calpe 2002

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