Palaeolithic

ISBN: 9781407308609
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book showcases the latest research on the Quaternary of eastern Galicia. It provides synthesises of palaeontological, zooarchaeological and geomorphic data to build up a picture of environmental conditions and climatic fluctuations. The se... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780752459356
Published by : The History Press
The discovery of Otzi the Ice-Man in 1991 was a global sensation, his 5200 year old body exceptionally well-preserved through freezing within glacier ice. This detailed study presents a new analysis of what this remarkable survival can tell us ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931745635
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: COTSEN: IDEAS, DEBATES AND PERSPECTIVES
Volume: 5
Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated and utilised in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900648
Published by : Sidestone Press
Pterosauriërs is a popular scientific book about pterosaurs: flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The book answers many questions about these remarkable animals and presents the current state of research. The book features many ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415354899
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This overview and analysis takes a novel approach to the long-term development of human mortuary activity - the various ways we deal with the dead and with dead bodies. The core chapters of the book survey the mortuary activities of early homi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415354905
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This overview and analysis takes a novel approach to the long-term development of human mortuary activity - the various ways we deal with the dead and with dead bodies. The core chapters of the book survey the mortuary activities of early homi... .... Learn More

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