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Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary

Author : Kristen A. Carlson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646422260
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary by : Kristen A. Carlson

Download or read book Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary written by Kristen A. Carlson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological research on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods has tended to focus on rock shelters, caves, large game kills, and occasionally butchery sites. Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary examines a diverse range of open-air sites—bounded both naturally and culturally—in Siberia and Germany and throughout North America. Open-air sites are difficult for researchers to locate and, because of depositional processes, often more difficult to interpret; they contain many superimposed events but often show evidence of only the most recent. Working to overcome the limitations of data and poor preservation, using decades of prior research and new analytical tools, and diverging from a one-size-fits-all mode of interpretation, the contributors to this volume offer fresh insight into the formation and taphonomy of open-air sites. Contributors: Douglas B. Bamforth, Ian Buvit, Brian J. Carter, Robin Cordero, Robert Dello-Russo, George C. Frison, Kelly E. Graf, Bruce B. Huckell, Michael A. Jochim, Joshua D. Kapp, Robert L. Kelly, Aleksander V. Konstantinov, Banks Leonard, Madeline E. Mackie, Christopher W. Merriman, Matthew J. O’Brien, Spencer Pelton, Neil N. Puckett, Beth Shapiro, Todd A. Surovell, Karisa Terry, Steve Teteak, Robert Yohe

Zooarchaeology of the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary

Author : International Council for Archaeozoology. Congress
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Zooarchaeology of the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary by : International Council for Archaeozoology. Congress

Download or read book Zooarchaeology of the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary written by International Council for Archaeozoology. Congress and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach of these papers is to evaluate the rapid environmental changes across the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary through its impact on human subsistence patterns. These patterns vary enormously in different regional areas and, in response to this, papers are drawn from Spain, Russia, Western Europe, the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Americas and Canada.

Humans at the End of the Ice Age

Author : Lawrence Guy Straus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461311454
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Book Synopsis Humans at the End of the Ice Age by : Lawrence Guy Straus

Download or read book Humans at the End of the Ice Age written by Lawrence Guy Straus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts.

Paleoindian Or Paleoarchaic?

Author : Kelly E. Graf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleoindian Or Paleoarchaic? written by Kelly E. Graf and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an updated perspective of human ecology and organization during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Great Basin, 13,000-8,000 years ago, with special regard to whether these hunter-gatherers possessed a Paleoindian or Paleoarchaic lifeway.

Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa

Author : Amanuel Beyin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031202902
Total Pages : 2194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa by : Amanuel Beyin

Download or read book Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa written by Amanuel Beyin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 2194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the continent. The focal time spans the Pleistocene Epoch (c. 2.5 million–11,700 years ago) during which important human traits, such as obligate bipedalism that freed the hands to engage in creative activities, a large brain relative to body size, language, and social complexity, developed in the general forms that they are found today. The handbook is the first of its kind, and it is expected to play a significant role in human evolutionary research by: ❖ Collating the African Stone Age record, which exists in a fragmented state along the lines of national boundaries and colonial experiences. ❖ Showcasing emerging conceptual and methodological advances in African Pleistocene archaeology. ❖ Providing reference datasets for teaching and researching African prehistory. ❖ Making Africa’s Stone Age record accessible to researchers and students based in Africa who may not have access to journal publications where most new field discoveries are published. The Handbook features 128 chapters, of which 116 are site entries grouped by the host countries and presented in an alphabetical order. A number of those site-related entries examine multiple archaeological localities lumped under specific projects or study areas. The rest of the contributions deal with methodological topics, such as luminescence and radiocarbon dating, field data recovery, lithic analysis, micromorphology, and hominin fossil and zooarchaeological records of Pleistocene Africa. The introductory chapter provides an historical overview of the development of Stone Age (Paleolithic) archaeology in Africa beginning in the mid-19th century, and paleoenvironmental and chronological frameworks commonly used to structure the continent’s Pleistocene record. By making a good amount of African Stone Age literature accessible to researchers and the public, we wish to promote interest in human evolutionary research in the continent and elsewhere.

Social Zooarchaeology

Author : Nerissa Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139504347
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Social Zooarchaeology written by Nerissa Russell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played many more roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, sacrificial victims, totems, centerpieces of feasts, objects of taboos, and more. These social factors are as significant as taphonomic processes in shaping animal bone assemblages. Nerissa Russell uses evidence derived from not only zooarchaeology, but also ethnography, history and classical studies, to suggest the range of human-animal relationships and to examine their importance in human society. Through exploring the significance of animals to ancient humans, this book provides a richer picture of past societies.

Earth Sciences and Archaeology

Author : Paul Goldberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461511836
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Earth Sciences and Archaeology written by Paul Goldberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions from an experienced group of archaeologists and geologists whose common objective is to present thorough and current reviews of the diverse ways in which methods from the earth sciences can contribute to archaeological research. Many areas of research are addressed here, including artifact analysis and sourcing, landscape reconstruction and site formation analysis, soil micromorphology and geophysical exploration of buried sites.

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

Author : Amber VanDerwarker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441909354
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany by : Amber VanDerwarker

Download or read book Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany written by Amber VanDerwarker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethnobotanical (plant) data, and even fewer attempts to quantitatively integrate these two types of subsistence evidence. Given the vastly different methods used in recovering and quantifying these data, not to mention their different preservational histories, it is no wonder that so few have undertaken this problem. Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany takes the lead in tackling this important issue by addressing the methodological limitations of data integration, proposing new methods and innovative ways of using established methods, and highlighting case studies that successfully employ these methods to shed new light on ancient foodways. The volume challenges the perception that plant and animal foodways are distinct and contends that the separation of the analysis of archaeological plant and animal remains sets up a false dichotomy between these portions of the diet. In advocating qualitative and quantitative data integration, the volume establishes a clear set of methods for (1) determining the suitability of data integration in any particular case, and (2) carrying out an integrated qualitative or quantitative approach.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea

Author : Ian J. McNiven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019009561X
Total Pages : 1169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea by : Ian J. McNiven

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea written by Ian J. McNiven and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 65,000 years ago, modern humans arrived in Australia, having navigated more than 100 km of sea crossing from southeast Asia. Since then, the large continental islands of Australia and New Guinea, together with smaller islands in between, have been connected by land bridges and severed again as sea levels fell and rose. Along with these fluctuations came changes in the terrestrial and marine environments of both land masses. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea reviews and assembles the latest findings and ideas on the archaeology of the Australia-New Guinea region, the world's largest island-continent. In 42 new chapters written by 77 contributors, it presents and explores the archaeological evidence to weave stories of colonisation; megafaunal extinctions; Indigenous architecture; long-distance interactions, sometimes across the seas; eel-based aquaculture and the development of techniques for the mass-trapping of fish; occupation of the High Country, deserts, tropical swamplands and other, diverse land and waterscapes; and rock art and symbolic behaviour. Together with established researchers, a new generation of archaeologists present in this Handbook one, authoritative text where Australia-New Guinea archaeology now lies and where it is heading, promising to shape future directions for years to come.

Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas

Author : Mariana Mondini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1785705164
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas written by Mariana Mondini and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident. This volume of 12 papers offers a zooarchaeological approach to questions surrounding the nature and extent of human colonisation and migration, and the adaptation of humans to new and sometimes extreme or challenging environments. The volume is divided into two parts: Part 1 takes up the theme of Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation. Contributors consider the relationship between human movements and the movements of animals and animal products; case studies look at Neolithic population movements in Oceania, the Norse colonisation of Greenland, and the European settlement of Virginia. Part 2 focuses on the topic of Behavioural Variability in the So-Called Marginal Areas. Contributors offer various interpretations of the concept of 'marginality', from climatic extremes of the Arctic cold, and the heat and aridity of western North America, to the geographical remoteness of Patagonia, and the cultural circumstances surrounding the beginnings of transhumant pastoralism in prehistoric southeastern Europe.

Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia

Author : David R. Harris
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1934536512
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia by : David R. Harris

Download or read book Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia written by David R. Harris and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia, archaeologist David R. Harris addresses questions of when, how, and why agriculture and settled village life began east of the Caspian Sea. The book describes and assesses evidence from archaeological investigations in Turkmenistan and adjacent parts of Iran, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan in relation to present and past environmental conditions and genetic and archaeological data on the ancestry of the crops and domestic animals of the Neolithic period. It includes accounts of previous research on the prehistoric archaeology of the region and reports the results of a recent environmental-archaeological project undertaken by British, Russian, and Turkmen archaeologists in Turkmenistan, principally at the early Neolithic site of Jeitun (Djeitun) on the southern edge of the Karakum desert. This project has demonstrated unequivocally that agropastoralists who cultivated barley and wheat, raised goats and sheep, hunted wild animals, made stone tools and pottery, and lived in small mudbrick settlements were present in southern Turkmenistan by 7,000 years ago (c. 6,000 BCE calibrated), where they came into contact with hunter-gatherers of the "Keltiminar Culture." It is possible that barley and goats were domesticated locally, but the available archaeological and genetic evidence leads to the conclusion that all or most of the elements of the Neolithic "Jeitun Culture" spread to the region from farther west by a process of demic or cultural diffusion that broadly parallels the spread of Neolithic agropastoralism from southwest Asia into Europe. By synthesizing for the first time what is currently known about the origins of agriculture in a large part of Central Asia, between the more fully investigated regions of southwest Asia and China, this book makes a unique contribution to the worldwide literature on transitions from hunting and gathering to agriculture.

The Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula

Author : Katina T. Lillios
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107113342
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula by : Katina T. Lillios

Download or read book The Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula written by Katina T. Lillios and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the only guides to the prehistoric archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula that engages with key anthropological and archaeological debates.

Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins

Author : Jamie L. Clark
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400767668
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins by : Jamie L. Clark

Download or read book Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins written by Jamie L. Clark and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent genetic data showing that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans have made it clear that deeper insight into the behavioral differences between these populations will be critical to understanding the rapid spread of modern humans and the demise of the Neanderthals. This volume, which brings together scholars who have worked with faunal assemblages from Europe, the Near East, and Africa, makes an important contribution to our broader understanding of Neanderthal extinction and modern human origins through its focus on variability in human hunting behavior between 70-25,000 years ago—a critical period in the later evolution of our species.

Archaeology at the Millennium

Author : Gary M. Feinman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387726101
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Book Synopsis Archaeology at the Millennium by : Gary M. Feinman

Download or read book Archaeology at the Millennium written by Gary M. Feinman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, internationally distinguished contributors consider hot topics in turn-of-the-millennium archaeology and chart an ambitious agenda for the future.

Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and Its First Settlers

Author : David S. Reese
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781881094166
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (941 download)

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Book Synopsis Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and Its First Settlers by : David S. Reese

Download or read book Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and Its First Settlers written by David S. Reese and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast

Author : James S. Dunbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813062686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Book Synopsis Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast by : James S. Dunbar

Download or read book Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast written by James S. Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dunbar's ... paleofaunal-environmental data traces all the known paleo sites in Florida, analyzes the materials recovered, and outlines the conditions under which the remains may have been deposited. In doing so he provides a new look into the distant past and a new way of thinking about life on the land mass we call Florida"--Provided by publisher.

Archaeology of Piedra Museo Locality

Author : Laura Miotti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303092503X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Piedra Museo Locality written by Laura Miotti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the knowledge about landscapes and characteristics of the earliest hunter-gatherer lifeway in Southern Patagonia. It presents an analysis of the archaeological investigations carried out during three decades by an interdisciplinary team that involved archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists and specialists in pollen and diatoms. The database yielded was recovered from systematic survey and excavations from the Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphic layers of the rockshelter known as AEP-1, Piedra Museo Locality, situated in the central plateau of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Piedra Museo is a unique place in the world of high academic interest with some of the earliest archaeological remains in the Americas. Researchers defined two strata and several Stratigraphic units in the site based on the sedimentological and pedological characteristics. The depositional zones contain archaeological remains that are interpreted as hunting events corresponding to two main different occasions in the human colonization of the region, and a third human occupation during the Middle Holocene. Last one occurred then of the massive rockshelter roof colapse. The faunal remains led to a new approach to the palaeoenvironmental evolution of this enclosed basin. This volume describes the management of lithic raw materials and social networks from first human occupation of the Patagonian region to territorial consolidation of hunter-gatherer societies.