Mesolithic

ISBN: 9781407304762
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume surveys the use of clay in Upper Palaeolithic Europe, arguing that alongside better studied media, clay was used a material for symbolic expression. Bougard identifies two cultural contexts with traditions of using clay, one in Mora... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407304786
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This work envisions the Solutrean from the view point of lithic techno-economic patterns. The analysis of several key-assemblages from the beginning of the Solutrean in south-western France is able to distinguish two distinct typo-technological... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700167624
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
23 Papers given at a conference called to mark the completion of a project ecploring the site of Hundssteig in Krems. Of special importance were sedimentology, Ice Age stratigraphy and absolute chronology which were discussed and compared over ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305776
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The scientific objectives of this research are to study technological processes during the Middle and initial Upper Pleistocene in the northeastern Iberian Peninsular and southwestern France, and their implications for the behaviour of prehist... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781438433660
Published by : State University of New York Press
Drawing on archaeological data from recent excavations at Verberie and in the Paris basin, this book aims to shed life on domestic life during the Upper Palaeolithic. The first group of essays and reports look at the technology and demographic ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781607321354
Published by : University of Colorado Press
Stone tools are the most durable and common type of archaeological remain and one of the most important sources of information about behaviors of early hominins. Contributors focus on the multiple ways in which archaeologists can investigate th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9786055607265
Published by : Zero Produksiyon Ltd (ege yayinlari)
The Yarimburgaz Cave on the coast of the Sea of Marmara yielded limited initial Palaeolithic results during 1986 excavation, which were investigated more throughly from 1988-1990 by the authors of this volume. These excavations abundant and div... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906120559
Published by : Two Ravens Press
This engaging book, written with all the flair which Steven Mithens wide readership have come to expect, is an unusual prospect as archaeological works go - as much memoir as monograph. Mithen focuses on one aspect of his archaeological career... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306841
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study reexamines the ideas of Saxe and Goldstein on territoriality amongst hunter-gatherers. Detailed case studies from North Africa and Scandinavia are used to explore the idea that cemeteries could, through funerary rituals, be used to l... .... Learn More