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Author : Nicholas J. Conard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age Settlement Systems written by Nicholas J. Conard and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas John Conard
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Total Pages : 648 pages
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Download or read book Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age written by Nicholas John Conard and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas John Conard
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Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Settlement Systems written by Nicholas John Conard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erella Hovers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387246614
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Transitions Before the Transition written by Erella Hovers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. The much-discussed split between advocates of a single, early emergence of anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa and supporters of various regional continuity positions is only part of the picture. Equally if not more important are questions surrounding the origins of modern behavior, and the relationships between anatomical and behavioral changes that occurred during the past 200,000 years. Although modern humans as a species may be defined in terms of their skeletal anatomy, it is their behavior, and the social and cognitive structures that support that behavior, which most clearly distinguish Homo sapiens from earlier forms of humans. This book assembles researchers working in Eurasia and Africa to discuss the archaeological record of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age. This is a time period when Homo sapiens last shared the world with other species, and during which patterns of behavior characteristic of modern humans developed and coalesced. Contributions to this volume query and challenge some current notions about the tempo and mode of cultural evolution, and about the processes that underlie the emergence of modern behavior. The papers focus on several fundamental questions. Do typical elements of "modern human behavior" appear suddenly, or are there earlier archaeological precursors of them? Are the archaeological records of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age unchanging and monotonous, or are there detectable evolutionary trends within these periods? Coming to diverse conclusions, the papers in this volume open up new avenues to thinking about this crucial interval in human evolutionary history.
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Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age Settlement Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erella Hovers
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Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Transitions Before the Transition written by Erella Hovers and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grant S. McCall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315433168
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Before Modern Humans written by Grant S. McCall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume, assessing Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory, argues that the onset of the Middle Stone Age marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers. Inaugurating a paradigm shift in our understanding of modern human behavior, Grant McCall argues that this transition—related to the origins of “home base” residential site use—occurred in mosaic fashion over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. He concludes by proposing a model of brain evolution driven by increasing subsistence diversity and intensity against the backdrop of larger populations and Pleistocene environmental unpredictability. McCall argues that human brain size did not arise to support the complex patterns of social behavior that pervade our lives today, but instead large human brains were co-opted for these purposes relatively late in prehistory, accounting for the striking archaeological record of the Upper Pleistocene.
Author : James M. Potter
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Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Middle Paleolithic Assemblage and Settlement Variability in West-central Jordan written by James M. Potter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West-Central Jordan - Stein/Silex - Vorderer Orient.
Author : Michael A. Jochim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441986642
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape written by Michael A. Jochim and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an archaeologist with primary research and training experience in North American arid lands, I have always found the European Stone Age remote and impenetrable. My initial introduction, during a survey course on world prehis tory, established that (for me, at least) it consisted of more cultures, dates, and named tool types than any undergraduate ought to have to remember. I did not know much, but I knew there were better things I could be doing on a Saturday night. In any event, after that I never seriously entertained any notion of pur suing research on Stone Age Europe-that course was enough for me. That's a pity, too, because Paleolithic Europe-especially in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene-was the scene of revolutionary human adaptive change. Iron ically, all of it was amenable to investigation using precisely the same models and analytical tools I ended up spending the better part of two decades applying in the Great Basin of western North America. Back then, of course, few were thinking about the late Paleolithic or Me solithic in such terms. Typology, classification, and chronology were the order of the day, as the text for my undergraduate course reflected. Jochim evidently bridled less than I at the task of mastering these chronotaxonomic mysteries, yet he was keenly aware of their limitations-in particular, their silence on how individual assemblages might be connected as part of larger regional subsis tence-settlement systems.
Author : Harold L. Dibble
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781931707541
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Middle Paleolithic written by Harold L. Dibble and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers originally presented at a symposium on the Middle Paleolithic of Europe and the Near East, organized as part of the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in the spring of 1989. Paleolithic archaeology has entered a period in which new interpretations, based on new finds and revised ideas concerning previously known material, are competing with traditional interpretations. There is an urgent need for continued dialogue among Paleolithic scholars, exemplified by these papers. Symposium Series IV University Museum Monograph, 78
Author : Myriam Ababsa
Publisher : Presses de l’Ifpo
ISBN 13 : 235159438X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Atlas of Jordan written by Myriam Ababsa and published by Presses de l’Ifpo. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas aims to provide the reader with key pointers for a spatial analysis of the social, economic and political dynamics at work in Jordan, an exemplary country of the Middle East complexities. Being a product of seven years of scientific cooperation between Ifpo, the Royal Jordanian Geographic Center and the University of Jordan, it includes the contributions of 48 European, Jordanian and International researchers. A long historical part followed by sections on demography, economy, social disparities, urban challenges and major town and country planning, sheds light on the formation of Jordanian territories over time. Jordan has always been looked on as an exception in the Middle East due to the political stability that has prevailed since the country’s Independence in 1946, despite the challenge of integrating several waves of Palestinian, Iraqi and - more recently - Syrian refugees. Thanks to this stability and the peace accord signed with Israel in 1994, Jordan is one of the first countries in the world for development aid per capita.
Author : Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030943682
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Quantifying Stone Age Mobility written by Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a ‘ground’ for the further development of quantitative approaches. In order to do so, the volume explores wide scale mobility (environmental contexts and cross-cultural trends), seasonal mobility of Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, and migration, niche construction, utilitarian and non- utilitarian factors of mobility. Chapters in the volume include case studies from across Europe and Asia. The editors’ introduction addresses the current state of mobility discourse in archaeology. The chapters address questions related to parameters used to describe different factors of movement and examines correlations between parameters describing environmental diversity, demography, and the values representing spatial movement. This volume is of interest to students and researchers of mobility of human beings in the past.
Author : Richard Rudgley
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712677585
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Lost civilisations of the Stone Age written by Richard Rudgley and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Nick Kardulias
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739105368
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Written in Stone written by P. Nick Kardulias and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Stone: The Multiple Dimensions of Lithic Analysis demonstrates the vitality of contemporary lithics analysis by examining material from a variety of geographical locations. This edited collection is primarily concerned with the link between craft production and social complexity, the nature of trade, and the delineation of settlement patterns and manipulation of landscape. While deconstructing the present to reconstruct the past, each chapter incorporates a technological dimension shaped by the type of analysis utilized. Methods include microwear analysis, which adds significant understanding of stone tool function, to the identification of obsidian sources, which illustrates the potential of lithic provenance studies for reconstructing trade. This book verifies and expands on the notion that lithics play an integral role in our understanding of past societies at all levels of complexity, from Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to archaic states.
Author : João Cascalheira
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030274039
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology written by João Cascalheira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book aims to provide a new perspective on the identification and interpretation of short-term occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology. The volume includes contributions with a particular focus on the definition and identification of short-term occupations in Paleolithic contexts, aiming to improve our current knowledge on the topic, both methodologically and interpretatively. The set of chapters coming from a broad spectrum of geographies and chronologies will contribute to the debate on the definition of short-term occupations but also to a better understanding on how past hunter-gatherers communities adapted and moved in different environmental contexts across time. The in-depth examinations of short-term occupations in different chronologies and environments will shed light on an aspect of the behavioral trajectories of the human species in the management of the territory.
Author : Nicholas J. Conard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400704151
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology written by Nicholas J. Conard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Neanderthal fossils gave reason for an international and interdisciplinary symposium in Bonn/Germany. The present book arose from this congress and focuses on multiple aspects of archaeological investigation on Neanderthal lifeways. In-depth studies of top-ranking scientists provide a detailed and comprehensive survey of contemporary research on our Pleistocene relatives. Examinations and debates are embedded in a variety of regions and time frames. Chronology, subsistence, land use, and cultural adaptations among late Neanderthals form the major trajectories of the book. The wide range of approaches involved, leads to an increasing understanding of the facets of and the variability of Neanderthal behavioural patterns. The present volume is complemented by a paleontologically orientated publication of the same congress (edited by Gerd-Christian Weniger and Silvana Condemi).
Author : Elena A. A. Garcea
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book South-eastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130,000 and 10,000 Years Ago written by Elena A. A. Garcea and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period in North Africa and the Near East. Recent archaeological research in North Africa has meant this region now plays a decisive role in scientific debate. After decades of neglect, the archaeological record from North Africa has now been seen to parallel in significance that of the Near East. This book offers an opportunity to observe the Afro-Asian side of the Mediterranean basin as an uninterrupted land, as it was for its Upper Pleistocene inhabitants. Areas of focus include the Out-of-Africa movement of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) into the Levant and the transition from the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age to the Upper Palaeolithic/Later Stone Age, during which a change of lifestyle took place, based on plant cultivation and animal husbandry. These topics are of crucial interest to anyone studying human evolution, prehistoric archaeology, anthropology, and palaeo-environmental studies. This volume brings together data as well as perspectives from various scholars, often separated by their areas of interest and location. This volume is complementary to The Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions edited by M. Camps and C. Szmidt (Oxbow Books, 2009).
