Figures
Tables
Foreword
Richard G. Klein
Preface and Acknowledgments
Human Evolutionary Ecology and Eastern Europe
Environmental Setting
Middle Pleistocene Settlement
Neanderthal Adaptations
The Transition to Modern Humans
People of the Loess Steppe
Retrospective
Bibliography
Index
John F. Hoffecker is a research associate at the institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of many publications on the archaeology of people in cold environments.
Most English-reading archaeologists know that Eastern European
prehistory can illuminate cultural evolution over tens of thousands
of years. . . . Now, for the first time, they have a readily
available, highly readable, authoritative, and comprehensive source
to inform both themselves and their students.
*from the Foreword by Richard G. Klein*
Hoffecker presents a concise review of the Paleolitic archaeology
of east Europe, wrapping together in one volume an extensive
bibliography that includes many Russian-language sources not
readily available to non-Russian speakersàWell illustrated with a
selection colleges and universities with course offerings at the
undergraduate and graduate level in anthropology, archaeology, and
environmental studies.
*Choice*
John Hoffecker has written a very worthy addition to the small, but
substantive collection of books by Americans that make the
Paleolithic record of Eastern Europe accessible to the Anglophone
community of paleanthropologists/prehistorians. . . . An excellent,
well-written, scholarly work by a specialist with a long track
record in Russian and Arctic archaeology.
*Journal of Anthropological Research*
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