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notinferno t1_iw5w3qu wrote

Reply to comment by MarsupialKing in Tracks Of Ancient Human Found In Spain Are 300k Years Old by Several_Cabinet_9725

from the article linked in the comments

>This new age implies that the possible track-makers are individuals more likely from the Neandertal evolutionary lineage. Regardless of the taxon attributed to the Matalascañas footprints, they supplement the existing partial fossil record for the European Middle Pleistocene Hominins being notably the first palaeoanthropological evidence (hominin skeleton or footprints) from the MIS 9 and MIS 8 transition discovered in the Iberian Peninsula, a moment of climatic evolution from warm to cool. Thus, the Matalascañas footprints represent a crucial record for understanding human occupations in Europe in the Pleistocene.

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Sgt_Colon t1_iw5htsw wrote

Reply to comment by Larielia in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator

These are good and varied collection of texts that you'd find on any decent university level course and are accessible to the layman:

  • The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 by Peter Brown
  • The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilisation by Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather
  • Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 by Guy Halsall

Really anything on the /r/AskHistorians book list for late antiquity is good, modern reading (although Jones is something to only skim unless you're studying it in earnest).

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