Institute For Ice Age Studies

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Dark Caves Bright Visions

This article originally appeared in

Le Travail et l 'Usage de l'Ivoire au
Paléolithique Supérieur.

Ravello: Centro Universitario Europeo Per I Beni Culturali, ed. J. Hahn- et al, 1995

Index

A. Introduction
B. The Ice Age
C. Modern Humans: Culture and Biology
- C.1 Ancient Human Capacities
- C.2 Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Culture
D. Neandertal Ancestors
- D.1 Neandertal Anatomy
- D.2 Teeth as Tools
E. Mousterian Culture
- E.1 Mousterian Stone Tools
- E.2 Tools in Other Materials
- E.3 Symbolic Elements
- E.4 Mousterian Use of Fire
- E.5 Mousterian Hunting
- E.6 Mousterian Shelter
- E.7 Mousterian Raw Material Procurement
- E.8 Mousterian Disposal of the Dead
F. The Disappearance of the Neandertals
G. The Late Pleistocene Environment
- G.1 Glacial Ice Sheets
- G.2 Sea Level Changes
- G.3 Unglaciated Zones
- G.4 Topographic Diversity in Late Ice Age Europe
- G.5 Late Ice Age Fauna in Europe
- G.6 Late Ice Age Flora
- G.7 Climatic Change in Late Ice Age Europe
H. The Upper Paleolithic Revolution
- H.1 Innovation and Change
- H.2 Regional Differences
- H.3 Cultural Periods