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On the Track of a Prehistoric Economy: Maglemosian Subsistence in Early Postglacial South Scandinavia
by Hans Peter Blankholm
Study of the Maglemosian economy in South Scandinavia, based on selected faunal assemblages and following a novel theoretical and methodological approach. This is the first publication aiming to integrate the zoological material and its bearing on the economy from a larger number of sites into the cultural-historical treatment of the Mesolithic. With zoological database. 315p, 16 figs (Aarhus UP 1993)
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Jersey in Prehistory
by Mark Patton
An accessible synthesis of the evidence for Jersey's prehistory, tracing the chronological development of human activity on the island, and describing the major prehistoric sites and excavations. 153p b/w illus and pls (La Haule Books 1987)
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The Earliest Occupation of Europe
edited by Wil Roebucks and Thijs van Kolfschoten
This collection of papers arises from a meeting of distinguished scholars at Tautavel in 1993, sponsored by the European Science Fund. The aim of the meeting was to discuss and review the evidence for the earliest occupation of different European regions, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and from the United Kingdom to the Russian Plains and including neighbouring areas such as the Caucasus and Northern Africa. Discussion focused on four ...
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Eurasian Prehistory 2,1
edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and J K Kozlowski
This journal, which is a joint venture endorsed by the American School of Prehistoric Research at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Institute of Archaeology at Jagiellonian University in Poland, aims to provide the rapid publications of site reports, articles and syntheses on aspects of the palaeolithic and neolithic of Eurasia. 100p, illus (Eurasian Prehistory, Peabody Museum 2004)
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Explorations in Albania, 1930-39: The Notebooks of Luigi Cardini, Prehistorian with the Italian Archaeological Mission
by Karen Francis
In 1999 a collection of documents were found in the archives of the Italian Institute of Human Palaeontology belonging to Luigi Cardini, one of the founders of the Institute. These documents included site notebooks, photographs, drawings and maps relating to work carried out in Albania from 1930-39 where he was sent on a governmental mission to `reinforce Italian supremacy in Albania through archaeological research'. This monograph publishes ...
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Petroglphes du Bassin Parisien
Tasse, Gilles
Catalogue of rock art sites in the Paris basin with photos and drawings, descriptions, discussion of chronology and an analysis of designs and motifs. 185p with illus. (Supplement to Gallia Prehistorie 16, 1982)
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Prehistoric Art in Europe
Sandars, N. K.
This is the second edition of Sandar's useful and very well illustrated study of art in Europe between its very first expression c.30,000 BC and the exquisite works of the Hallstatt and La Tène periods. Adopting a chronological approach, the study discusses Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic art across Europe, considering its subject matter, execution and the types of media. The sections devoted to the Bronze and Iron Ages travel across ...
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Culture and Change in Central European Prehistory: 6th to 1st millennium BC
by Helle Vankilde
Oxbow says: Drawing principally on material culture evidence, Helle Vankilde examines social and culture change in central Europe from the earliest agricultural communities to the rise of urbanism and statehood. With lots of illustrations throughout, the discussion of social, cultural and technological change is married with more theoretical discussion on issues such as warriorhood, elitism and state formation. In turn, Helle Vankilde ...
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Eurasian Prehistory 5,1 (2007)
edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and J.K. Kozlowski
The aim of this journal is to publish lengthy site reports with many illustrations and other data-based articles. Contents: Donald Henry and April Nowell: Time-Space Patterns in Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Point Attributes from Ayn Abu Nukhayla; ...
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Die Gegenwartige Richtung der Indogermanistischen Forschung
by Winfred P. Lehmann
Lehmann reviews recent scholarship circling around the "Indo-European problem". His own very sound assessment of Indo-European proto-language and proto-culture, areas of origin and expansion is based on combined arguments from linguistic reconstruction, language typology and areal studies, grammar and vocabulary of the Indo-European proto-language, anthropology and archaeology. German text. 89p (Archaeolingua 1992)
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