Introduction to palaeoanthropology

• Neandertal Extinction
Required reading:
Chapters 5, 6 and 8 in Richard Klein, The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Third
Edition, University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 9780226439655 .
Suggested additional reading:
1. Antón, S. C. and C. C. Swisher (2004) Early Dispersals of Homo from Africa. Annual Review of
Anthropology 33:271-296.
2. Bailey, S., Weaver, T.D. and J.-J. Hublin (2009) Who made the Aurignacian and other early Upper
Paleolithic industries? Journal of Human Evolution 57:11-26.
3. Bruner, E. (2010) Morphological Differences in the Parietal Lobes within the Human Genus: A
Neurofunctional Perspective. Current Anthropology 51(s1): S77-S88.
4. Freidline, S.E., Gunz, P., Harvati, K. and J.-J. Hublin (2012) Middle Pleistocene human facial
morphology in an evolutionary and developmental context. Journal of Human Evolution
63(5):723-740.
5. Froehle, A. W. and S. E. Churchill (2009) Energetic competition between Neandertals and
anatomically modern humans. PaleoAnthropology 2009(96-116).
6. Gunz, P., Neubauer, S., Maureille, B. and J.-J. Hublin (2010) Brain development after birth differs
between Neanderthals and modern humans. Current Biology 20:R921-R922.
7. Henry, A. G., Brooks, A. S. and D. R. Piperno (2011) Microfossils in calculus demonstrate
consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II,
Belgium). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:486-491.
8. Hublin, J. J. (2009) The origin of Neandertals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
106:16022-16027.
9. Hublin, J.-J. (2012) The earliest modern human colonization of Europe. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences 109(34): 13471-13472.
10. Hublin, J.-J. et al. (2012) Radiocarbon dates from the Grotte du Renne and Saint-Césaire support
a Neandertal origin for the Châtelperronian. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
109(46):18743-18748.
11. Kachel, A.F., Premo, L.S. and J.-J. Hublin (2011) Modeling the effects of weaning age on length of
female reproductive period - Implications for the evolution of human life history. American
Journal of Human Biology 23(4):479-487.
12. Kaplan, H. et al. (2000) A theory of human life history evolution: Diet, intelligence, and longevity.
Evolutionary Anthropology 9(4): 156-185.