Palaeolithic

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

ISBN: 9781905739141
Published by : Archaeopress
Oxbow says: Mapping Doggerland documents the methodology and results of an innovative project to investigate a large area of the Southern North Sea, submerged during the last Glacial Maximum between 10,000 and 7500 bp. The North Sea Palaeolands... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783806221244
Published by : Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH & Co.
The main purpose of this study was to trace the taphonomic history of the vertebrate remains of the Lower Palaeolithic Bunker sites at Bad-Cannstatt near Stuttgart. The book is divided into two parts, the first deals with the geology, sedimento... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674024991
Published by : Harvard University Press
Oxbow says: The Red Lady of Paviland has had a chequered past, being placed in many different periods, and accorded different guises and roles. This book tells the story of the Red Lady, following 'her' discovery in Paviland Cave in Wales, in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789057990922
Published by : Robert Beard
This study evaluates recent excavations in the Netherlands to develop techniques and frameworks for archaeological heritage management in wetland landscapes, specifically looking at the archaeology of foragers and early farmers. In so doing the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405184212
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Eight essays on aspects of Stone Age Europe with a marked Scandinavian flavour. Topics include: a lengthy paper on the transition from Late Copper Age to Early Bronze Age in Erezo-Kale, North Bulgaria; the Shoe-last axe in Central Europe; the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

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

ISBN: 9780752437347
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
The general perception of the archaeology of the Mesolithic in Britain and Ireland is that the period is somewhat impoverished. Often assumed to have an exceptionally limited range of evidence, the period is also perceived as a theoretical back... .... Learn More