Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - The Formation of Upper Palaeolithic Cultures and Anatomically Modern Humans: The Ease European Perspective AU - Anikovich MV Y1 - 1999 VL - 37 IS - 2 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 115 EP - 123 KW - Neanderthals KW - Anatomically modern humans KW - Eastern Europe KW - Archaeological cultures KW - Lines of development KW - Acculturation N2 - N2 - This paper examines the chronostratigraphic and archaeological records of eastern Europe dating to the Late Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic. After an in-depth discussion of this record, it argues that, as elsewhere in Europe, the sum of the available data, together with paleoanthropological evidence, suggest an acculturation of indigenous Neanderthal groups to incoming anatomically modern humans. ER -