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Author : Wil Roebroeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : UOM:39015042540008
The period of 30,000 to 20,000 bp can be aptly called the Golden Age of hunter gatherers for a variety of reasons spelled out in great detail by the 37 contributors to this volume.
Author : Vicki Cummings,Peter Jordan,Marek Zvelebil
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1361 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199551224
For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. This book provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities.
Author : Sanz, Nuria (UNESCO)
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001079
Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199675616
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first text to offer a comparative survey of figurines from across the globe, bringing together myriad contemporary research approaches to provide invaluable insights into their function, context, meaning, and use, as well as past thinking on the human body, gender, and identity.
Author : Marcy Rockman,James Steele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134520145
A series of case studies examines the archaeological evidence for and interpretations of landscape learning from the movement of the first pre-modern humans into Europe to the English colonists at Jamestown.
Author : Rebecca Gowland,Christopher Knusel
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782972709
Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. The interpretative value of human skeletal remains (within their burial context) in terms of past social identity and organisation is awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with the anthropology of the deceased.
Author : Sarah Tarlow,Liv Nilsson Stutz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191650383
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
Author : Natalie R. Franklin,Matthias Strecker
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782975885
This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World. During the period in question, 1999 to 2004, there have been few major events, although in the field of Pleistocene art many new discoveries have been made, and a new country added to the select list of those with Ice Age cave art. Some regions such as North Africa and the former USSR have seen a tremendous amount of activity, focusing not only on recording but also on chronology, and the conservation of sites. With the global increase of tourism, the management of rock art sites that are accessible to the public is a theme of ever-growing importance.
Author : Maria Teschler-Nicola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783211492949
The Upper Paleolithic fossils of the Mladec caves, South Moravia, excavated at the end of the 19th century, hold a key position in the current discussion on modern human emergence within Europe and the fate of the Neanderthals. Although undoubtedly early modern humans - recently radio carbon dated to 31.000 years BP - their morphological variability and the presence of archaic features are indicative to some degree of regional Neanderthal ancestry. The beautifully illustrated monograph addresses - for the first time - the complete assemblage of the finds, including the human cranial, post cranial, teeth and jaw fragments of several individuals (most of them stored at the Natural History Museum Vienna) as well as the faunal remains and the archaeological objects. Leading scientists present their results, obtained with innovative techniques such as DNA analysis, 3D-morphometry and isotope analysis, which are of great importance for further discussions on both human evolution and archaeological issues.
Author : Marianne Sommer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0674024990
When ochre-stained bones were unearthed by William Buckland in a Welsh cave in 1823, they raised many unsettling questions regarding their origin, and inspired the casting and recasting of the character who became known as the Red Lady. Her biography reflects the personal, professional, and national ambitions of those who studied her.
Author : John Robb,Oliver J. T. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521195287
This book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day, focusing on specific moments of change. Developing a multi-scalar approach to the past, and drawing on the work of an interdisciplinary team of experts, the authors examine how the body has been treated in life, art and death for the last 40,000 years. Key case-study chapters examine Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Classical, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern bodies. What emerges is not merely a history of different understandings of the body, but a history of the different human bodies that have existed. Furthermore, the book argues, these bodies are not merely the product of historical circumstance, but are themselves key elements in shaping the changes that have swept across Europe since the arrival of modern humans.
Author : Paul Pettitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136699108
Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of human mortuary activity – the various ways we deal with the dead and with dead bodies. It is the first comprehensive survey of Palaeolithic mortuary activity in the English language. Observations in the modern world as to how chimpanzees behave towards their dead allow us to identify ‘core’ areas of behaviour towards the dead that probably have very deep evolutionary antiquity. From that point, the palaeontological and archaeological records of the Pliocene and Pleistocene are surveyed. The core chapters of the book survey the mortuary activities of early hominins, archaic members of the genus Homo, early Homo sapiens, the Neanderthals, the Early and Mid Upper Palaeolithic, and the Late Upper Palaeolithic world. Burial is a striking component of Palaeolithic mortuary activity, although existing examples are odd and this probably does not reflect what modern societies believe burial to be, and modern ways of thinking of the dead probably arose only at the very end of the Pleistocene. When did symbolic aspects of mortuary ritual evolve? When did the dead themselves become symbols? In discussing such questions, The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial offers an engaging contribution to the debate on modern human origins. It is illustrated throughout, includes up-to-date examples from the Lower to Late Upper Palaeolithic, including information hitherto unpublished.
Author : Nicholas J. Conard,Jürgen Richter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400704152
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 : Elle Clifford,Paul Bahn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803272597
This is the first attempt to present a truly complete, balanced and realistic picture of life during the last Ice Age, while dispelling many of the myths and inaccuracies about our early ancestors. This highly illustrated and accessible book is aimed not only at students and specialists, but also and especially the interested public.
Author : Margherita Mussi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306471957
This book aims to synthesize more than 600,000 years of Italian prehistory, beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers of the early Holocene. The author treats such issues as the development of social structure, the rise and fall of specific cultural traditions, climatic change, modifications of the landscape, fauna and flora, and environmental adaptation and exploitation and includes detailed descriptions of the most important sites.
