The earliest Europeans : a year in the life : seasonal survival strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic /

"The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of 'a year in the life': how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, an...

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Main Author: Hosfield, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2020.
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