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From Kostenki to Clovis

Upper Paleolithic—Paleo-Indian Adaptations

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Editors:
  1. Olga Soffer

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

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  2. Nikolai Dmitrievich Praslov

    1. Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Olga Soffer, Nikolai Dmitrievich Praslov
      Pages 3-14

    3. The Environment and Human Adaptation Systems in Prehistoric Times

      • Vadim Mikhailovich Masson
      Pages 15-19

  3. The Upper Paleolithic Record

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-22
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    2. Radiocarbon Chronology for the Upper Paleolithic Sites on the East European Plain

      • Yurii Stepanovich Svezhentsev
      Pages 23-30

    3. Upper Paleolithic Adaptations in Central and Eastern Europe and Man-Mammoth Interactions

      • Olga Soffer
      Pages 31-49

    4. The Kostenki-Avdeevo Archaeological Culture and the Willendorf-Pavlov-Kostenki-Avdeevo Cultural Unity

      • Gennadii Pavlovich Grigor’ev
      Pages 51-65

    5. Subsistence Practices of Late Paleolithic Groups along the Dnestr River and Its Tributaries

      • Ilia Aleksandrovich Borziyak
      Pages 67-84

    6. Two Examples of Terminal Paleolithic Adaptations

      • Zoia Aleksandrovna Abramova
      Pages 85-100

    7. Bones for Stones

      • Lewis R. Binford
      Pages 101-124

    8. Amvrosievka

      • Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Krotova, Nataliia Grigor’evna Belan
      Pages 125-142

    9. Determining Upper Paleolithic Historicocultural Regions

      • Pavel Iosifovich Boriskovskij
      Pages 143-147

    10. Criteria for Estimating the Duration of Occupation at Paleolithic Sites

      • Nataliia Borisovna Leonova
      Pages 149-157

    11. The Technology and Function of Tools in the Context of Regional Adaptations

      • Galina Fedorovna Korobkova
      Pages 159-173

    12. Man and Nature in Northeastern Europe in the Middle and Late Pleistocene

      • Boris Isaakovich Guslitzer, Pavel Yurievich Pavlov
      Pages 175-188

    13. The Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary

      • Paul M. Dolukhanov
      Pages 189-196

  4. The Paleo-Indian Record

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-198
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    2. The Ones that Will Not Go Away

      • J. M. Adovasio
      Pages 199-218

    3. Clovis-Folsom Geochronology and Climatic Change

      • C. Vance Haynes Jr.
      Pages 219-236
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About this book

From the American Side I went to the USSR for the first time in 1982 to attend the 11th meeting of the International Union for Quaternary research (INQUA) held at the Moscow State University. At that time relations between our two countries were anything but congenial and many restrictions were placed on our viewing the archaeological and paleontological collections and labora­ tory facilities. This was not the ideal climate for the free exchange of ideas needed for meaningful research. However, it was obvious to us that the strained relations did not extend to scientific discussions between scholars. We left that meeting well aware that if the problems of prehistoric Old World-New World relationships were to be resolved, it would eventually require cooperative research efforts within the world community of archaeologists. At that time, the pre-Clovis problem in New World archaeology was foremost in the minds of many North American researchers: tool technology and assemblages were being studied as a possible means of establishing cultural relationships across the Bering Strait, Clovis sites and mammoth kills were being looked at with new ideas for interpretation, and New World researchers realized that to resolve these questions they had to become familiar with the archaeological record of northeast Asia. A chance meeting of the writer with Olga Soffer in 1983 led to serious discussions of the sites on the Russian or East European Plain.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

    Olga Soffer

  • Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Nikolai Dmitrievich Praslov

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Kostenki to Clovis

  • Book Subtitle: Upper Paleolithic—Paleo-Indian Adaptations

  • Editors: Olga Soffer, Nikolai Dmitrievich Praslov

  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1112-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44271-1Published: 28 February 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-1114-8Published: 18 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1112-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2722

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 334

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology

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