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1 online resource (314 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781444311969
Content:
Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies provides a detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeological record. The volume addresses sites ranging in age from some of the earliest hominin occupations in eastern and southern Africa to late Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene occupations in North American and Australia. The Early Paleolithic in India and the Near East, the Middle Paleolithic in Europe, and the Late Paleolithic in Europe and eastern Asia are also considered. The authors include established researchers who provide important synthetic statements updated with new information. Recent data are reported, often by younger scholars who are becoming respected members of the international research community. The authors represent research traditions from nine countries and therefore provide insight into the scholarly present as well as the Paleolithic past. Attempts are frequently made to relate lithic procurement and utilization to the organization of societies and even broader concerns of hominin behaviour. The volume re-evaluates existing interpretations in some instances by updating previous work of the authors and offers provocative new interpretations that at times call into question some basic assumptions of the Paleolithic. This book will be invaluable reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of palaeolithic archaeology, geoarchaeology, and anthropology.
Content:
Intro -- Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Lithics, Landscapes, and Societies -- Part I: Regional Landscape Perspectives -- Chapter 1: Raw Materials and Techno-Economic Behaviors at Oldowan and Acheulean Sites in the West Turkana Region, Kenya -- Chapter 2: Patterns of Lithic Material Procurement and Transformation During th e Middle -- Chapter 3: Revisiting European Upper Paleolithic Raw Material Transfers: the Demise of the Cultural Ecological Paradigm? -- Chapter 4: Sourcing Raw Materials for Chipped Stone Artifacts: the State-Of-The-Art in Hungary and the Carpathian Basin -- Chapter 5: Upper Paleolithic Toolstone Procurement and Selection Across Beringia -- Chapter 6: Reduction, Recycling, and Raw Material Procurement in Western Arnhem Land, Australia -- Part II: Technological and Assemblage Variability -- Chapter 7: Paleolithic Exploitation of Rounded and Sub-Angular Quartzites in the Indian Subcontinent -- Chapter 8: Filling the Void: Lithic Raw Material Utilization During the Hungarian Gravettian -- Chapter 9: Technological Efficiency as an Adaptive Behavior among Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers: Evidence from La-Côte, Caminade Est, and Le Flageolet I -- Chapter 10: Trash: the Structure of Great Basin Paleoarchaic Debitage Assemblages in Western North America -- Part III: Micro-Landscape Perspectives -- Chapter 11: Reconstructing Landscape use and Mobility in The Namibian Early Stone Age using Chaîne Opératoire -- Chapter 12: Changing the Face of the Earth: Human Behavior at Sede Ilan, an Extensive Lower-Middle Paleolithic Quarry Site in Israel -- Chapter 13: Aurignacian Core Reduction and Landscape Utilization at La Ferrassie, France -- Chapter 14: OblAzowa And HlOmcza: Two Paleolithic Sites in The North Carparthians Province of Southern Poland.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405168373
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lithic materials and Paleolithic societies Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 ISBN 9781405168373
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405168374
Additional Edition:
Print version Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Geography
Keywords:
Paläolithikum
;
Siedlung
;
Sozialarchäologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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