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The Pleistocene Old World

Regional Perspectives

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Olga Soffer

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

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

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Old World Archaeology and Archaeologists from a New World Perspective

      • George C. Frison
      Pages 5-14

  3. Defining and Interpreting Regional Records

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-16
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    2. Searching for Camps and Missing the Evidence?

      • Lewis R. Binford
      Pages 17-31

    3. Reduction Sequences in the Manufacture of Mousterian Implements of France

      • Harold L. Dibble
      Pages 33-45

    4. “Arms Too Short to Box with God”

      • Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Jan F. Simek
      Pages 47-61

    5. Interpretive Problems in Hunter-Gatherer Regional Studies

      • Margaret W. Conkey
      Pages 63-77

  4. Macroregional Patterns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Man the Shoveler

      • Clive Gamble
      Pages 81-98

    3. Middle Pleistocene Adaptations in India

      • V. N. Misra
      Pages 99-119

    4. Regional Perspectives on the Soviet Central Asian Paleolithic

      • Richard S. Davis
      Pages 121-133

    5. Recent Developments in the Upper Pleistocene Prehistory of China

      • John W. Olsen
      Pages 135-146

    6. Pleistocene Australia

      • Harry Lourandos
      Pages 147-165

  5. Regional Adaptations at a Point in Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Wadi Feiran, Southern Sinai

      • James L. Phillips
      Pages 169-182

    3. The Paris Basin in Magdalenian Times

      • Françoise Audouze
      Pages 183-200

    4. Magdalenian Settlement Pattern and Subsistence in Central Europe

      • Gerd-C. Weniger
      Pages 201-215

  6. Changes through Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Late Pleistocene Adaptations in the Levant

      • Ofer Bar-Yosef
      Pages 219-236
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About this book

Regional approaches to past human adaptations have generated much new knowledge and understanding. Researchers working on problems of adaptations in the Holocene, from those of simple hunter-gatherers to those of complex sociopolitical entities like the state, have found this approach suitable for comprehension of both ecological and social aspects of human behavior. This research focus has, however, until recently left virtually un­ touched a major spatial and temporaI segment of prehistory-the Old World during the Pleistocene. Extant literature on this period, by and large, presents either detailed site­ speeific accounts or offers continental or even global syntheses that tend to compile site­ speeific information but do not integrate it into whole c~nstructs of funetioning so­ ciocuhural entities. This volume presents our current state of knowledge about a variety of regional adaptations that charaeterized prehistoric groups in the Old World before 10,000 B. P. The authors of the chapters consider the behavior of humans rather than that of objects or features and present data and models for variaus aspects of past cultures and for culture change. These presentations integrate findings and understandings derived from a number of related disciplines actively involved in researching the past. Data and interpretations are offered on a range of Old \yorld regions during the PaIeolithic, induding Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe, and chronological coverage spans from the Early to Late PIeisto­ cene.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Olga Soffer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Pleistocene Old World

  • Book Subtitle: Regional Perspectives

  • Editors: Olga Soffer

  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1817-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9016-2Published: 01 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1817-0Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2722

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 402

  • Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Archaeology

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