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Palaeolithic/Mesolithic Europe

Thinking Mesolithic
by Stefan Karol Kozlowski
Studies of the European Mesolithic have gone through a renaissance since the seminal Warsaw conference on the subject in 1973, and Stefan Kozlowski has been at its heart. This book presents a comprehensive, re-edited selection of his most important writings on the subject, along with new papers written especially for this edition. Kozlowski begins with thematic chapters exploring Mesolithic archaeology's key themes - the technologies people ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £60.00, Our Price GB £17.95

Mesolithic Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century
edited by Nicky Milner and Peter Woodman
The term 'Mesolithic' was born in the nineteenth century from the need to label a 'hiatus' period and was not generally accepted as a useful term by many scholars until around fifty years later. It has been championed by some, but still concerns others because of the difficulty of defining what it represents. This volume highlights the enthusiasm for Mesolithic studies in the 21st century and the feeling that there is a need to explore the many ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic
edited by William Davies and Ruth Charles
Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into dangerous regions such as Kurdistan. Her first and highly successful excavation revealed fragments of Neanderthal fossils in Gibralter. This volume ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

A Very Remote Period Indeed: Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe
edited by Sarah Milliken and Jill Cook
This is a volume no Palaeolithic archaeologist should be without. It is offered to Derek Roe by his friends and colleagues as a tribute to his enthusiasm, support and encouragement over many years. The twenty-seven papers range from Africa to the Near East and beyond, to Kazakhstan and Korea, and across southern Europe to Britain, the Thames Valley, East Anglia and Pontnewydd. The list of authors and the range of topics they write about are a ...
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The Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions
edited by Marta Camps and Carolyn Szmidt
The passage between the periods which we call Middle and Upper Palaeolithic has long held a special fascination for Palaeolithic archaeologists, but over the past ten years or so it has gone right to the top of the list of 'hot' research topics. Underpinning it all is genuine and apparently enduring public interest in what actually happened at this point in human history. Why so much public interest? Well, it's us, isn't it? - bright, clever, ...
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Stone Age Archaeology: Essays in honour of John Wymer
edited by Frances Healy, Nick Ashton and Paul Pettitt
248p with illus (Oxbow Monograph 102, 1998)
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The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways
by Robert L. Kelly
The author wrote this book primarily for his archaeology students, to show them how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of anthropological literature points to differences in foraging societies' patterns of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, exchange, gender relations, division of labour, marriage, descent and political organisation. By considering ...
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Human Palaeoecology in the Levantine Corridor
edited by Naama Goren-Inbar and John D Speth
Few areas of the world have played as prominent a role in human evolution as the Levantine Corridor, a comparatively narrow strip of land sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea on the west and the expanse of inhospitable desert to the east. The first hominids to leave Africa, over 1.5 million years ago, first entered the Levant before spreading into what is now Europe and Asia. About 100,000 years ago another African exodus, this time of ...
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Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily
edited by Colin Renfrew and Daniel Nettle
This volume of essays examines the claim that a linguistic macrofamily can be identified which includes not only the Indo-European and Afroasiatic language families but also the Kartvelian, Uralic,Altaic and Dravidian families. The Nostratic case was put by Aharon Dolgopolsky in his The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguitic Palaeontology, and it is here evaluated critically by linguists specialising in the language families concerned. ...
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Return to Chauvet Cave: Excavating the Birthplace of Art-The First Full Report
by Jean Clottes
Chauvet Cave, located in the Ardeche region of France, contains some of the best known examples of prehistoric cave painting dating back some 35,000 years. This publication represents the first full report of the scientific programme of research of the cave and its art headed by Jean Clottes. Whilst the text discusses the aims and methods of recording and studying the cave deposits, evidence for human and animal activities, and the art itself, ...
Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £48.00