Neanderthal 1856-2006

Neanderthal 1856-2006
edited by
Ralf W. Schmitz
with contributions by:
GEORGES BONANI, GÜNTER BRÄUER, THORSTEN M. BUZUG, CRISTIAN CAPELLI,
SUSANNE C. FEINE, URSULA FRANCKE, K. FELIX HILLGRUBER, JOSEF KLOSTERMANN,
HEIKE KRAINITZKI, MATTHIAS KRINGS, SUSANNE C. MÜNZEL,
MARIA OSTENDORF SMITH, SVANTE PÄÄBO, MARCIA S. PONCE DE LEON,
WOLFGANG RÄHLE, RALF W. SCHMITZ, MICHAEL SCHULTZ,
DAVID SERRE, FRED H. SMITH, FRANK TSCHENTSCHER, URSULA ZÄNGL,
CHRISTOPH R E. ZOLLIKOFER
VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN • MAINZ AM RHEIN
JÜRGEN KUNOW
Foreword
GABRIELE UELSBERG
Greeting
NICHOLAS J. CONARD Greeting
RALF W. SCHMITZ
RALF
W.
Acknowledgements
The discovery of fossil man in the 18 and 19 Century
SCHMITZ
(Inaugural lecture at the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen WS 2004 / 2005)
JOSEF KLOSTERMANN
RALF
W. SCHMITZ
URSULA ZÄNGL
RALF
The Neander Valley and the environment of the Neanderthals
A romantic valley and a discovery that has changed the world
Hermann Schaaffhausen (1816-1893) and the Neanderthal finds of the 19 Century
W. SCHMITZ
The rediscovery of the Sediments from the Neanderthal type specimen's site
C. FEINE
The Sediments containing finds from the caves Feldhofer Kirche and
Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley. Analysis of the secondary stratification using GoCAD
URSULA FRANCKE
Modern pottery and iron objects from the debris of the Feldhofer Grottos
SUSANNE
in the Neander Valley
WOLFGANG RÄHLE
SUSANNE
C. FEINE
Shell remains from the new excavations in the Neander Valley, Germany
The Upper Palaeolithic stone artefacts from the rediscovered cave Sediments
in the Neander Valley
K. FELIX HILLGRUBER
The Middle Palaeolithic stone artefacts from the site in the Neander Valley
C. FEINE and K. FELIX HILLGRUBER The raw material of the Middle Palaeolithic and
Gravettian stone artefacts from the 1997 and 2000 excavations in the Neander Valley
SUSANNE C. FEINE and RALF W. SCHMITZ
Three unusual cores from the rediscovered cave Sediments
in the Neander Valley
SUSANNE
SUSANNE C. FEINE, K. FELIX HILLGRUBER, SUSANNE C. MÜNZEL and RALF W. SCHMITZ
Evidences for the use of faunal resources in the recovered materials from the rediscovered
cave sediments in the Neander Valley
Status of the Neanderthal type specimen remains after the recovery
of the finds in 1856 to 1995
HEIKE KRAINITZKI
H. SMITH, MARIA OSTENDORF SMITH and RALF W. SCHMITZ
Human skeletal remains
from the 1997 and 2000 excavations of cave deposits derived from Kleine Feldhofer Grotte
in the Neander Valley, Germany
FRED
THORSTEN
M.
BUZUG
Computed Tomography - a tutorial for anthropologists
P. E. ZOLLIKOFER and
on the first decade of research
CHRISTOPH
MICHAEL SCHULTZ
MARCIA
S.
PONCE DE LEON
Digital Neanderthals: a view
Results of the anatomical-palaeopathological investigations on the Neanderthal
skeleton from Kleine Feldhofer Grotte (1856) including the new discoveries from 1997/2000
RALF
W. SCHMITZ
Preservation of ancient DNA in the bone material of the Neanderthal type specimen
and FRANK TSCHENTSCHER
Human evolution: Ques from
Neanderthal mtDNA control region sequences - What's next?
DAVID SERRE, RALF W. SCHMITZ and SVANTE PÄÄBO
Genetic analyses of the Neanderthals
from the Feldhofer Caves
MATTHIAS KRINGS, CRISTIAN CAPELLI
GEORGES BONANI
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating of Middle and
Upper Palaeolithic samples from the Neander Valley, Germany
GÜNTER BRÄUER
The African origin of modern humans and the replacement of the Neanderthals
RALF
W. SCHMITZ
Neanderthal 1856-2006
RALF
W. SCHMITZ
Neandertal 1856-2006

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