Overview
- Highlights the importance of including osseous projectile weaponry in investigations of Pleistocene cultural complexity
- Sheds new light on how modern human cultures developed and changed
- Maximizes readers insights into how osseous projectile weaponry impacted Pleistocene subsistence, social culture and technological knowledge
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Europe
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Southeast Asia & Australia
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The Americas
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Her current research is focused on the use of marine sourced raw materials for technology manufacture in early human communities. Her previous research has centered on investigating the maintenance (resharpening, repair, reuse, recycling) of Magdalenian barbed and unbarbed osseous projectile points; exploring the evidence for advanced and symbolic cognition in the Pleistocene archaeological records of Eurasia and Sahul (Greater Australia); and identifying the impact of taphonomic processes on these records. Issues surrounding the development and use of symbolic behaviour and social signalling technologies within Pleistocene Neanderthal and Modern Human populations remains the underlying focus of her research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Osseous Projectile Weaponry
Book Subtitle: Towards an Understanding of Pleistocene Cultural Variability
Editors: Michelle C. Langley
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0899-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0897-3Published: 03 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1430-1Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-0899-7Published: 27 January 2017
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 257
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Biogeosciences