ANTHROPOLOGY 388 Stone-Age Europe: Peoples and Cultures of the Distant Past	Central Michigan University Instructor: Charles M. Hastings Office:  Anspach 118 Office Hours:  T,Th 2-4 or by appointment charles.hastings@cmich.edu
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General Sources General, Prehistoric Europe Pleistocene Lower Paleolithic Middle Paleolithic Upper Paleolithic Mesolithic Neolithic Bronze Age Iron Age Back to ANT 388A Hastings Home Page

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General Sources on Archaeology

• Link to my listing of Professional Organizations and Other Archaeological Resources

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General Sources on Prehistoric Europe

• Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe - WWW Virtual Library for European Archaeology

• Archaeology in Europe - privately maintained site with news items and many useful links

• Archaeology Periods & Cultures - commercial site with many useful links on European archaeology

• OldStoneAge.com

• Stone Age Habitats - D. R. Kowalski

• Stone Age Reference Collection (SARC) - Institute of Archaeology(I.A.K.K.) at the University of Oslo, Norway

About the Textbook Authors

• Michael Jochim - University of California at Santa Barbara

• Sarunas Milisauskas - State University of New York at Buffalo

• Kenneth L. Feder - Central Connecticut State University

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Pleistocene

• Current Research in the Pleistocene

• Glaciers and Pleistocene Geology Links - University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Global land environments since the last interglacial

  • Europe during the last 150,000 years - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Lower Paleolithic

• Handaxes

  • Acheulean Handaxes - Everything You Always Wanted to Know... by Marco Langbroek

  • Stone Age Handaxes - D. R. Kowalski

• Atapuerca

  • A New Species?  - Archaeology Institute of America

  • First Humans:  Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca - American Museum of Natural History

• Dmanisi

  • Dmanisi Site - Georgian Center of Prehistoric Research

  • Doubting Dmanisi - American Scientist Online

  • Georgian Skull - National Geographic

• Ceprano

  • Discovery of a Homo erectus calvarium... - A. Ascenzi & A. G. Segre, Journal of Human Evolution (1996)

  • A Corrected Reconstruction and Interpretation... - R. J. Clarke, Journal of Human Evolution (2000)

• Terra Amata

  • Musée de Paleontologie Humaine de Terra Amata - Nice, France (in French)

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Middle Paleolithic

• In Search of Neandertals

• Krapina.com

• Neandertals:  A Cyber Perspective - Kharlena María Ramanan

• Neanderthal in Fiction - novels by several authors

• Neanderthal Links

• Neanderthal Museum - Neanderthal Museum Foundation, Germany

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Upper Paleolithic

Art

• Cave Paintings:  Cantabria:  Altamira Cave

• Cave Paintings:  Museum of Altamira - Spanish Ministry of Culture

• Cave Paintings:  Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, France

• Cave Paintings:  Grotte de la Madeleine, France

• Cave Paintings:  Grotte de Lascaux, France

• Human Origins Upper Paleolithic Art 

• Paleolithic Art in France -  Jean Clottes, Bradshaw Foundation

• Venus Figures from the Stone Age

Other

• Solutré Site - Anta Montet-White

• Stone Age Reference Collection - University of Oslo, Norway

• Upper Paleolithic France - Logan Museum, Beloit College

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Mesolithic

• Culverwell Mesolithic Site - Dorset, England -The Megalithic Portal

• Kierikki Stone Age Center - Yli-li, Finland

• The Mesolithic Sites of Siebenlinden - State Office for Historical Monuments of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

• Origins of War:  Mesolithic Conflict in Europe - Nick Thorpe, British Archaeology Issue No. 52, April 2000

• Scotland's Past:  The Mesolithic - Fergie Meek

• Undersea Stone Age Site Found - off the Scottish coast, BBC News, UK version, 2003

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Neolithic

• Megaliths in the Carnac Region of France

• Stone Pages:  Stonehenge, Stone Circles, ... Archaeology of Megalithic Europe

  • Descriptions and photos of 529 sites in England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Whales

  Bog Archaeology

• The Mysterious Bog People

• Bog Bodies of the Iron Age - Nova, The Perfect Corpse

Ötzi - Iceman

• Death of the Iceman - BBC, 2002

• Origin and Migration of the Alpine Iceman - Science 31 October 2003: Vol. 302(5646): 862-866

• Ötzi:  Iceman of the Alps - Mummy Tombs (private site)

• Otzi, the 5,300 year old Iceman from the Alps - (private site)

• Senales (Schnals) Valley Tourism, Italy - just below where Ötzi died

  • Archeoparc Val Senales - interactive Ötzi museum in nearest small village

  •  Ötzi Show Gallery

• South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology - Ötzi's new home in the town of Bolzano, Italy, below the Senales Valley

 

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Bronze Age

• Links to the Bronze Age in Europe and Beyond - Bernd Sprenzel

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