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The Magdalenian Household
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

The Magdalenian Household

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

A comprehensive investigation of household life during the Upper Paleolithic era. What was home and family like in Paleolithic Europe? How did mobile hunter-gatherer families live, work, and play together in the fourteenth millennium BP? What were the functional and spatial constraints and markers of their domesticity—the processes that create and sustain a household? Despite the long recognized absence of comprehensive archaeological data on such ancient homes and hearths, the archaeologists in this volume begin unraveling the domesticity of the Upper Paleolithic by drawing on both an immense trove of new material evidence and comparative site data, and a range of incisive and illuminating...

New Perspectives on Old Stones
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

New Perspectives on Old Stones

As the study of Palaeolithic technologies moves towards a more analytical approach, it is necessary to determine a consistent procedural framework. The contributions to this timely and comprehensive volume do just that. This volume incorporates a broad chronological and geographical range of Palaeolithic material from the Lower to Upper Palaeolithic. The focus of this volume is to provide an analysis of Palaeolithic technologies from a quantitative, empirical perspective. As new techniques, particularly quantitative methods, for analyzing Palaeolithic technologies gain popularity, this work provides case studies showcasing these new techniques. Employing diverse case studies, and utilizing multivariate approaches, morphometrics, model-based approaches, phylogenetics, cultural transmission studies, and experimentation, this volume provides insights from international contributors at the forefront of recent methodological advances.

A Mind Set on Flint
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 541

A Mind Set on Flint

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Barkhuis

This volume comprises papers presented to Dick Stapert on the occasion of his retirement from the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (University of Groningen) in 2011 and celebrates his scientific career. The contributions cover nearly 300,000 years of Human History and were written by colleagues, former students and friends. Topics include the making and use of fire, children in the Stone Age, spatial analysis, and other themes related to the study of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and beyond.

Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology

Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology goes beyond a mere review of current literature and features the most up to date contributions from numerous scientists working in the field. The book represents a groundbreaking and comprehensive resource covering the plethora of applications of micromorphology in archaeology. Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology offers researchers, students and professionals a systematic tool for the interpretation of thin sections of archaeological contexts. This important resource is also designed to help stimulate the use of micromorphology in archaeology outside Europe, where the technique is less frequently employed. Moreover, the authors ho...

The Central European Magdalenian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

The Central European Magdalenian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-09-09
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  • Publisher: Springer

This monograph on the Central European Magdalenian aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the archaeological record of this period. It sheds new light on five regional groups between the Rhône valley to the west and the Vistula-valley to the east, which existed roughly between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago. Readers will discover that these groups are characterized with regard to their environmental setting (including faunal and vegetational aspects), lithic raw material and mollusk shell procurement, typology, technology and artesian craftworks. The work also explores an alternative interpretation of bidirectional recolonization from both Franco-Cantabria and Eastern Central Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum. This book will appeal to researchers and scholars in archaeology and cognate fields.

Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 522

Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe

This volume offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The 18 articles were contributed by archaeologists from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden, using the same framework to propose a uniform view of the mining phenomenon.

Le concept de territoires dans le Paléolithique supérieur européen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Le concept de territoires dans le Paléolithique supérieur européen

This book contains papers in French and English Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Volume 3. Session C16. Series Editor: Luiz Oosterbeek

Field Archaeology from Around the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Field Archaeology from Around the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the communities within which they work. While insisting on the highest levels of investigation, we celebrate the different designs, concepts, scientific detection methods and recording systems applied - so embracing standards, but not standardisation. The boo...

Eventful Archaeologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Eventful Archaeologies

The potential of events for interpreting changes in the archaeological record.

The Bell Beaker Culture in All Its Forms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Bell Beaker Culture in All Its Forms

Proceedings of the 22nd meeting of the ‘Archéologie et Gobelets’ Association which took place in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2021. The book is structured in three parts: Archaeological Material, Funerary Archaeology and Anthropology, and Reconstructing Bell Beaker Society.