Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling of Europe

1. Neanderthals and Emergent Palaeoanthropology 50 Years Ago
F. Clark Howell

2. One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Discoveries: Continuity and Discontinuity
Silvana Condemi

3. The Genus Homo: Origin, Speciation and Dispersal
Winfried Henke, Thorolf Hardt

4. Before the Neanderthals: Hominid Evolution in Middle Pleistocene Europe
Ian Tattersall

5. The Earliest European Human Peopling After the Recent Discoveries: Early Neanderthals or Different Lineages?
Francesco Mallegni

6. The Gran Dolina-TD6 Human Fossil Remains and the Origin of Neanderthals
José María Bermúdez Castro, María Martinón-Torres, Aida Gómez-Robles, Ann Margvelashvili, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José Miguel Carretero, Ignacio Martinez, Susana Sarmiento

7. The Hominid Fossils from China Contemporaneous with the Neanderthals and Some Related Studies
Wu Liu, Xiujie Wu

8. Behavioral and Cultural Origins of Neanderthals: A Levantine Perspective
Naama Goren-Inbar

9. Discontinuities in the Faunal Assemblages and Early Human Populations of Central and Western Europe During the Middle and Late Pleistocene
Wighart von Koenigswald

10. Neanderthal Geographical and Chronological Variation
Bernard Vandermeersch, María Dolores Garralda

11. A Preliminary Approach to the Neanderthal Speciation by Distance Hypothesis: A View from the Shoulder Complex
Jean-Luc Voisin

12. Facts and Ideas in Paleolithic Growth Studies (Paleoauxology)
Anne-Marie Tillier

13. Dental Development and Age at Death of a Middle Paleolithic Juvenile Hominin from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan
Tanya M. Smith, Donald J. Reid, Anthony J. Olejniczak, Shara Bailey, Mica Glantz, Bence Viola, Jean-Jacques Hublin

14. Computerized Reconstruction of Prenatal Growth Trajectories in the Dentition: Implications for the Taxonomic Status of Neandertals
Patricia Smith, Gal Avishai, Ralph Müller, Yankel Gabet

15. Endostructural Characterisation of the Regourdou 1 Neanderthal Proximal Arm: Bilateral Asymmetry and Handedness
Virginie Volpato, Christine Couture, Roberto Macchiarelli, Bernard Vandermeersch

16. A Three-Dimensional Look at the Neanderthal Mandible
Katerina Harvati, Nandini Singh, Elisabeth Nicholson López

17. Integration and Homology of “Chignon” and “Hemibun” Morphology
Philipp Gunz, Katerina Harvati

18. Virtual Synthesis of the Skull in Neanderthals by FESS
Ulrich Witzel

19. Neandertal mtDNA from a Late Pleistocene Human Mandible from the Cova del Gegant (Spain)
Juan Luis Arsuaga, Rolf Quam, Joan Daura, Montserrat Sanz, Maria Eulàlia Subira, Love Dalén, Anders Götherström

20. Towards Neanderthal Paleogenomics
David Caramelli, Lucio Milani, Roscoe Stanyon, Carles Lalueza Fox

21. Twelve Years of Neandertal Genetic Discoveries: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges
Ludovic Orlando, Catherine Hänni

22. Radiocarbon Dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: The Demise of the Last Neanderthals and the First Appearance of Anatomically Modern Humans in Europe
Olaf Jöris, Martin Street, Thomas Terberger, Bernhard Weninger

23. Archaeological, Paleontological and Genomic Perspectives on Late European Neandertals at Vindija Cave, Croatia
Ivor Janković, Ivor Karavanić, James C. M. Ahern, Dejana Brajković, Jadranka Mauch Lenardić, Fred H. Smith

24. Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans in Europe, Population Dynamics and Paleobiology
Erik Trinkaus

25. Aliens from Outer Time? Why the “Human Revolution” Is Wrong, and Where Do We Go from Here?
João Zilhão

26. Neandertals and the Roots of Human Recency
Milford H. Wolpoff, Rachel Caspari

27. Epilogue: 150 Years of Neanderthal Research – A Hopeless Situation but Not Serious
Gerd-Christian Weniger

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