ISBN:
9780387764870
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9780387764788
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXVI, 574p, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Anthropology
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Archaeology
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Social Sciences
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Anthropology
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Archaeology
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Social sciences
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Paläolithikum
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Paläolithikum
Abstract:
As the study of Palaeolithic technologies moves towards a more analytical approach, it is necessary to determine a consistent procedural framework. The contributions to this timely and comprehensive volume do just that. This volume incorporates a broad chronological and geographical range of Palaeolithic material from the Lower to Upper Palaeolithic. The focus of this volume is to provide an analysis of Palaeolithic technologies from a quantitative, empirical perspective.As new techniques, particularly quantitative methods, for analyzing Palaeolithic technologies gain popularity, this work provides case studies particularly showcasing these new techniques. Employing diverse case studies, and utilizing multivariate approaches, morphometrics, model-based approaches, phylogenetics, cultural transmission studies, and experimentation, this volume provides insights from international contributors at the forefront of recent methodological advances.
Description / Table of Contents:
Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions; Part 1: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives; Has the Notion of ''Transitions'' in Paleolithic Prehistory Outlived Its Usefulness? The European Record in Wider Context; Accidents of History: Conceptual Frameworks in Paleoarchaeology; Defining Modernity, Establishing Rubicons, Imagining the Other-and the Neanderthal Enigma; The Longest Transition or Multiple Revolutions?; Quantifying Transitions: Morphometric Approaches to Palaeolithic Variability and Technological Change; ESR Dating at Hominid and Archaeological Sites During the Pleistocene
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The South Asian Paleolithic Record and Its Potential for Transitions StudiesDISCUSSION 1: An Overview of Matters Transitional, From the Outside Looking In; Part 2: Changes Within the Lower Paleolithic; From Nothing to Something: The Appearance and Context of the Earliest Archaeological Record; The Oldowan-Acheulian Transition: Is there a ''Developed Oldowan'' Artifact Tradition?; Lower Palaeolithic Transitions in the Northern Latitudes of Eurasia; Hominin Adaptability and Patterns of Faunal Turnover in the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition in the Levant
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DISCUSSION 2: Transitions: Behavioral Change in the Early PleistocenePart 3: Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transitions; Assessing the Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition; The East Asian Middle Paleolithic Reexamined; The Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition in South Asia and Its Implications for Hominin Cognition and Dispersals; DISCUSSION 3: The Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition; Part 4: Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transitions; The Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition Revisited; Historical Perspectives on the European Transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic
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From the Middle to the Later Stone Age in Eastern AfricaComparing Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transitions in the Middle East and Egypt; Through the Looking-Glass. The Most Recent Years of Cantabrian Research in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition; The Transitional Aurignacian and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition Model in Cantabrian Iberia; Hard Work Never Goes to Waste: The Role of Iberia in the Mid-Upper Paleolithic Transition; What Is a 'Transitional' Industry? The Uluzzian of Southern Italy as a Case Study
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Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in Vindija Cave (Croatia): New Results and InterpretationsSzeletian, Not Aurignacian: A Review of the Chronology and Cultural Associations of the Vindija G1 Neandertals; The Bükk Mountain Szeletian: Old and New Views on ''Transitional'' Material from the Eponymous Site of the Szeletian; The Subsistence Behaviours of the Last Crimean Neanderthals; DISCUSSION 4: The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: What News?; Part 5: The Later Paleolithic; Investigating the Aurignacian/Gravettian Transition in the Bistritcedila Valley (NE-Romania)
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Modern Human Colonization of the Siberian Mammoth Steppe: A View from South-Central Siberia
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Methodological and theoretica perspectives: Has the notion of "transitions" in Paleolithic prehistory outlived its usefulness? : the European record in wider context / Lawrence Guy Straus. Accidents of history : conceptual frameworks in paleoarchaeology / Geoffrey A. Clark. Defining modernity, establishing rubicons, imagining the other--and the Neanderthal enigma / Olga Soffer. The longest transition or multiple revolutions? / John A.J. Gowlett. Quantifying transitions : morphometric approaches to Palaeolithic variability and technological change / Stephen J. Lycett. ESR dating at hominid and archaeological sites during the Pleistocene / Bonnie A.B. Blackwell [and others]. The South Asian Paleolithic record and its potential for transitions studies / Parth R. Chauhan. Discussion 1: An overview of matters transitional, from the outside looking in / Angela E. CloseChanges within the Lower Paleolithic: From nothing to something : the appearance and context of the earliest archaeological record / Michael J. Rogers and Sileshi Semaw. The Oldowan-Acheulian transition : is there a "developed Oldowan" artifact tradition? / Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, and Dietrich Stout. Lower Palaeolithic transitions in the northern latitudes of Eurasia / Jan Michal Burdukiewicz. Hominin adaptability and patterns of faunal turnover in the early to middle Pleistocene transition in the Levant / Miriam Belmaker. Discussion 2: Transitions : behavioral change in the early Pleistocene / Robin Dennell -- Lower to Middle Paleolithic transitions: Assessing the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition / Michael Chazan. The East Asian Middle Paleolithic reexamined / Christopher J. Norton, Xing Gao, and Xingwu Feng. The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in South Asia and its implications for hominin cognition and dispersals / H. James and M.D. Petraglia. Discussion 3: The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition / Paola Villa -- Middle to Upper Paleolithic transitions: The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition revisited / Robert G. Bednarik. Historical perspectives on the European transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic / Francis B. Harrold. From the middle to the later Stone Age in eastern Africa / Pamela R. Willoughby. Comparing Middle to Upper Paleolithic transitions in the Middle East and Egypt / Deborah I. Olszewski. Through the looking-glass : the most recent years of Cantabrian research in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition / Alvaro Arrizabalaga and Maria José Iriarte. The transitional Aurignacian and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition model in Cantabrian Iberia / Federico Bernaldo de Quirós and José Manuel Maíllo-Fernández. Hard work never goes to waste : the role of Iberia in the Mid-Upper Paleolithic transition / Marta Camps. What is a 'transitional' industry? : the Uluzzian of southern Italy as a case study / Julien Riel-Salvatore. Middle/Upper Paleolithic interface in Vindija Cave (Croatia) : new results and interpretations / Ivor Karavanić and Marylène Patou-Mathis. Szeletian, not Aurignacian : a review of the chronology and cultural associations of the Vindija G1 Neanderthals / João Zilhão. The Bükk Mountain Szeletian : old and new views on "transitional" material from the eponymous site of the Szeletian / Brian Adams. The subsistence behaviours of the last Crimean Neanderthals / Marylène Patou-Mathis. Discussion 4: The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition : what news? / Erella Hovers -- The Later Paleolithic: Investigating the Aurignacian/Gravettian transition in the Bistrița Valley (NE-Romania) / Leif Steguweit. Modern human colonization of the Siberian mammoth steppe : a view from south-central Siberia / Kelly E. Graf. Shades of gray : the Paleoindian-early archaic "transition" in the Northeast / J.M. Adovasio and Kurt W. Carr. Central Andean lithic techno-typology at the terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene transition / Elmo Leon Canales. The Paleolithic-Mesolithic transition / Marcel Otte. Discussion 5: Transitions in the later Palaeolithic / Rupert A. Housley -- Afterword / Luiz Oosterbeek.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-0-387-76487-0
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