Palaeolithic
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Prähistorische Lawinen: Nachweis und Analyse holozäner Lawinenereignisse in den Zillertaler Alpen, Österreich. Der Blick zurueck als Schluessel fuer die Zukunft [Hardback]
Roland Luzian (Editor)
$53.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783700160984
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Mitteilungen der Kommission für Quartärforschung
Volume: 16
An interdisciplinary research project on the detection and analysis of Holocene avalanches in the Zillertaler Alps, Austria. Chapters focus on spatial analysis and geo-spatial distribution and the detection, simulation and interpretation of act... .... Learn More -
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal Region, Siberia: Bioarchaeological Studies of Past Life Ways [Hardback]
Andrzej W. Weber (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781934536117
Published by : Univ Pennsylvania Museum Pubs
Baikal is an archaeologically unique and emerging area of hunter-gatherer research, offering insights on the complexity, variability, and dynamics of long-term culture change. .... Learn More -
Målsnes 1: An Early Post-Glacial Coastal Site in Northern Norway [Hardback]
H P Blankholm (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842173435
Published by : Oxbow Books
Malsnes is a coastal site dating to c.9500 BP, and located at the outlet of the Bardu-Malselv river system. It was discovered in 1998 and several years of meticulous excavation followed. This book reports the first results of the excavations, w... .... Learn More -
A view to a kill: investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence using an optimal foraging perspective [Paperback]
G L Dusseldorp (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9789088900204
Published by : Sidestone Press
The sophistication of Neanderthal behavioural strategies have been the subject of debate from the moment of their recognition as a separate species of hominin in 1856. This book presents a study on Neanderthal foraging prowess. Novel ethnograph... .... Learn More -
Krems-Hundssteig-Mammutjaeger der Eiszeit: Ein Nutzungsareal paläolithischer Jäger- und Sammler(innen) vor 41.00027.000 Jahren [Paperback]
Christine Neugebauer-Maresch (Editor)
$228.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783700138815
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission
Volume: 67
In the course of mining for loess, around 1900 large numbers of Palaeolithic artefacts were found at the so-called Hundssteig in Krems. These were evaluated as being 35,000-year-old Aurignacian relics.
A century later, a large-scale constr... .... Learn More -
Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory [Hardback]
A. Colin Renfrew (Author);Peter Forster (Author);Shuichi Matsumura (Editor)
$50.00ISBN: 9781902937458
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Data from molecular genetics have changed our views on the origin, spread and timescale of our species across this planet. But how can we reveal more detail about the demography of ancient human populations? For example, is it possible to deter... .... Learn More -
Time and Change: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Long Term in Hunter-Gatherer Societies [Paperback]
Dimitra Papagianni (Author); Robert Layton (Editor); Herbert Maschner (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842173206
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume explores long-term behavioural patterns and processes of change in hunter-gatherer societies from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present. In doing so, this volume questions the disciplinary distinctions between fine and coarse-grain ... .... Learn More -
Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea [Paperback]
Vincent Gaffney (Author); Kenneth Thomson (Author); Simon Fitch (Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9781905739141
Published by : Archaeopress
12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By 5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, ... .... Learn More -
The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways [Paperback]
R.J. Kelly (Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9780975273883
Published by : Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
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 literatur... .... Learn More -
Breathing Life into Fossils: Taphonomic Studies in Honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain [Hardback]
Travis R. Pickering (Editor); Kathy Diane Schick (Editor); Nick Toth (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780979227615
Published by : Stone Age Institute Press
Taphonomy, the study of the processes leading to the fossilization of organic remains, is one of the most important avenues of inquiry in human origins research. Breathing Life into Fossils is a major contribution to taphonomic studies in pale... .... Learn More