Pleistocene Old World

Regional Perspectives

AvOlga Soffer

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Del i serien Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

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Beskrivning

Extant literature on this period, by and large, presents either detailed site speeific accounts or offers continental or even global syntheses that tend to compile site speeific information but do not integrate it into whole c~nstructs of funetioning so ciocuhural entities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-11-01
Mått:178 x 254 x 21 mm
Vikt:706 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Antal sidor:402
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9781461290162

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi

Innehållsförteckning

I Introduction.- 1 • Old World Archaeology and Archaeologists from a New World Perspective.- II Defining and Interpreting Regional Records.- 2 Searching for Camps and Missing the Evidence?:Another Lookat the Lower Paleolithic.- 3 • Reduction Sequences in the Manufacture of MousterianImplements of France.- 4 • “Arms Too Short to Box With God”: Problems and Prospects forPaleolithic Prehistory in Dordogne, France.- 5 • Interpretive Problems in Hunter-Gatherer Regional Studies:Some Thoughts on the European Upper Paleolithic.- III Macroregional Patterns.- 6 • Man The Shoveler: Alternative Models for Middle PleistoceneColonization and Occupation in Northern Latitudes.- 7 • Middle Pleistocene Adaptations in India.- 8 • Regional Perspectives on the Soviet Central Asian Paleolithic.- 9 • Recent Developments in the Upper Pleistocene Prehistory ofChina.- 10 • Pleistocene Australia: Peopling a Continent.- IV Regional Adaptations at a Point in Time.- 11 • Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Wadi Feiran, Southern Sinai.- 12. The Paris Basin in Magdalenian Times.- 13. Magdalenian Settlement Pattern and Subsistence in Central Europe: The Southwestern and Central German Cases.- V Changes Through Time.- 14 • Late Pleistocene Adaptations in the Levant.- 15 • Perigordian and Noaillian in the Greater Périgord.- 16 • Aurignacian and Gravettian Settlement Patterns in Central Europe.- 17 • Glimpses of Long-Term Shifts in Late Paleolithic Land Use in the Périgord.- 18 • Fishing and Foraging: Marine Resources in the Upper Paleolithic of France.- 19 • From the Mousterian to the Metal Ages: Long-Term Change in the Human Diet of Northern Spain.- 20 • Late Pleistocene Refugia in Europe.- 21 • Upper Paleolithic Connubia, Refugia, and the ArchaeologicalRecord from Eastern Europe.- 22 • Prehistory and Paleoenvironments at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in the Western Cape.- 23 • The Case for the Regional Perspective: A New World View.