The similarities between Neanderthals and Upper Palaeolithic people.

The similarities between Neanderthals and Upper Palaeolithic people. "Neanderthalers were more primitive than we are (in some ways), they did live in cold climates (at times), they wore skins (often) and they lived in caves (much of the time). That is the way they were first pictured to us and that is the way they are remembered. Today nearly the reverse is true: Neanderthal man is accepted as our most immediate ancestor, and, by comparison …showed first 75 words of 1013 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1013 total…of man. New York: Harper and Row Steele, J and Shennan S. 1996 The Archaeology of Human ancestry: Power, sex and tradition New York and London: Routledge Deacon, H.J. and Deacon J. 1999 Human beginnings in South Africa. Cape Town: David Phillip Publishers. Stringer, C. B. 1996. "Current Issues in Modern Human Origins," in Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution. Ed. by E. Meikle, F. C. Howell, and N. Jablonski. San Francisco, CA, California Acad. of Sciences, Memoir 21.