PREHISTORIC LINKS
Erm, the links aren't prehistoric,
the subject matter is.
| General | Neanderthal | Cro-Magnon |
| Anthropology.net | ||
| Past Horizons: Adventures in Archeology. | ||
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Zooarchaeology Comparative Collection Databases -- From the Florida Museum of Natural History. |
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Prehistory pages from Minnesota St. University. |
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| Extensive web links for everything from Australopithecines to Cro Magnon. From the web notes for History of Life, 3rd ed. | ||
| Stone Age Resources: Links page. Many links are as dead as the fossils they talked about. | ||
| "Skeletons in Your Closet": a brief overview of early hominids, from an online anthropology course. | ||
| The Leakey Foundation is committed to research related to human origins. | ||
| Stone Age Reference Collections: an excellent reference on tools and techniques, from the University of Oslo. | ||
| Schöningen Spear Project: 400,000 year old spears. | ||
| Primitive Ways deals with recreating primitive technologies. | ||
| Flintsource: identifying the geographic origins of prehistoric artifacts in Europe. | ||
| The Lithics Site: a resources for archeological lithic analysts. | ||
| Society of Primitive Technology | ||
| Primitive technology and reenactment links. | ||
| Institute for Ice Age Studies | ||
| Early Man: Where did early man begin, and why? | ||
| Laboratory for Experimental Archeology: nice site, but in Italian. | ||
| Anthropology Resources | ||
| Paleontological Research Institute. | ||
| Articles: Dominance war in Britain - 400K years ago? | ||
| Prehistorics Illustrated | ||
| PaleoPlanet forum | ||
| Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project. And PMIP Phase 2. | ||
| Global land environments since the last interglacial. From the Review and Atlas of Paleovegetation. | ||
| Don's Maps: A collection of resources for paleolithic Europe, Russia, and Australia. | ||
| Bibliography of prehistoric fiction. | ||
| Occoquan Paleotechnics: Replicas and castings of stone points and other primitive technology. | ||
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And while I learned it as "Neanderthal", I'm getting the impression that it's in vogue to drop the "h". |
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Who Were the Neandertals? is a good introduction to these ancient peoples, and includes more about the (still ongoing!) debate on the relationship between the Neanderthals and us. From the Earth and Sky website. |
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| The Neanderthal Wikipedia article, including many links. | ||
The web-page of the museum at the site where Neandertals were discovered. |
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Neandertals: A Cyber Perspective is a good source for information on the folks we can't decide if we descended from (we all have relatives like that, I'm sure). |
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| In Search of Neanderthals | ||
| Maps, articles and photos related to Mousterian sites. | ||
| Another article about Neanderthal DNA findings, from ABCNews. | ||
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Giving voice to the Neanderthal: Evidence on Neanderthal speech. |
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| Extensive Neanderthal web links. | ||
| The Neanderthal Paradigm, by Valerius Geist. | ||
| A summary and transcript of a BBC show about Neanderthals -- specifically, determining such things as strength, intelligence and vocal capability based on anatomical evidence. | ||
| Neanderthal fact files from the BBC. | ||
| The Gibraltar Caves -- possibly the last Neanderthal holdouts. | ||
| Mousterian Artifacts. | ||
| Abstract for a project Thoughtful Hunters? The Archaeology of Neandertal Communication and Cognition | ||
| Wiki article on Cro-Magnons. | ||
| Cave Art | ||
| Official websites for the Lascaux Cave and Chauvet Cave | ||
| Cave paintings of France from the Bradshaw Foundation. | ||
| Don's pages on Chauvet, Lascaux, Grotte de Niaux, and Grotte de Cussac | ||