Palaeolithic Europe

Author : Jennifer C. French
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108584111

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Palaeolithic Europe by Jennifer C. French Pdf

In this book, Jennifer French presents a new synthesis of the archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and palaeogenetic records of the European Palaeolithic, adopting a unique demographic perspective on these first two-million years of European prehistory. Unlike prevailing narratives of demographic stasis, she emphasises the dynamism of Palaeolithic populations of both our evolutionary ancestors and members of our own species across four demographic stages, within a context of substantial Pleistocene climatic changes. Integrating evolutionary theory with a socially oriented approach to the Palaeolithic, French bridges biological and cultural factors, with a focus on women and children as the drivers of population change. She shows how, within the physiological constraints on fertility and mortality, social relationships provide the key to enduring demographic success. Through its demographic focus, French combines a 'big picture' perspective on human evolution with careful analysis of the day-to-day realities of European Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities—their families, their children, and their lives.

Author : Clive Gamble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521658721

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The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe by Clive Gamble Pdf

Palaeolithic societies have been a neglected topic in the discussion of human origins. In this book, which succeeds and replaces The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe, published by Cambridge University Press in 1986, Clive Gamble challenges the established view that the social life of Europeans over the 500,000 years of the European Palaeolithic must remain a mystery. In the past forty years archaeologists have recovered a wealth of information from sites throughout the continent. Professor Gamble now introduces a new approach to this material. He examines the archaeological evidence from stone tools, hunting and campsites for information on the scale of social interaction, and the forms of social life. Taking a pan-European view of the archaeological evidence, he reconstructs ancient human societies, and introduces new perspectives on the unique social experience of human beings.

Author : Jennifer C. French
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108710069

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Palaeolithic Europe by Jennifer C. French Pdf

In this book, Jennifer French presents a new synthesis of the archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and palaeogenetic records of the European Palaeolithic, adopting a unique demographic perspective on these first two-million years of European prehistory. Unlike prevailing narratives of demographic stasis, she emphasises the dynamism of Palaeolithic populations of both our evolutionary ancestors and members of our own species across four demographic stages, within a context of substantial Pleistocene climatic changes. Integrating evolutionary theory with a socially oriented approach to the Palaeolithic, French bridges biological and cultural factors, with a focus on women and children as the drivers of population change. She shows how, within the physiological constraints on fertility and mortality, social relationships provide the key to enduring demographic success. Through its demographic focus, French combines a 'big picture' perspective on human evolution with careful analysis of the day-to-day realities of European Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities-their families, their children, and their lives.

Author : D. K. Bhattacharya,Dibyendu Kanti Bhattacharya
Publisher : Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018681208

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Palaeolithic Europe by D. K. Bhattacharya,Dibyendu Kanti Bhattacharya Pdf

Author : Timothy Champion,Clive Gamble,Stephen Shennan,Alisdair Whittle
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598744637

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PREHISTORIC EUROPE by Timothy Champion,Clive Gamble,Stephen Shennan,Alisdair Whittle Pdf

This volume provides an elementary and comprehensive synthesis of the new discoveries and the new interpretations of European prehistory.

Author : Wil Roebroeks,Clive Gamble
Publisher : Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000066095088

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The Middle Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe by Wil Roebroeks,Clive Gamble Pdf

This volume focuses on the evidence from the Middle Paleolithic, assessing it in its own right rather than looking at it for signs of the development of 'modern humans' as they become recognisable in the subsequent Upper Paleolithic period. It provides useful regional reviews of the evidence from different regions of Europe. It is the second of three volumes on the phases of the Paleololithic being sponsored by the European Science Foundation. (The first was the Earliest Occupation of Europe - ed. W. Roebroeks, Leiden 1995). Contents: The Middle Paleololithic - a point of inflection (Clive Gamble and Wil Roebroeks); Environments and settlements in the Iberian peninsula (Luis Gerardo Vega Toscano, Luis Raposa and Manuel Santojana); The Neanderthals in Italy (M Mussi); Environment and adaptations in Eastern central Europe (Jiri Svorboda); The Middle Palaeolithic of Quercy (J Jaubert); The Middle Paleolithic of the Aquitaine Basin (Alain Turq); The Northwest European Middle Paleolithic (Wil Roebroeks and Alain Tuffreau); Hominids without homes - The Nature of Middle Palaeolithic settlement in Europe (J Kolen); Surface scatters from Southern Limburg, the Netherlands (Jan Kolen et al); Raw Material Transport Patterns (J Feblot-Augustins); The Faunal Record of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Europe (S Gaudzinski). "

Author : P. Jeffrey Brantingham,Steven L. Kuhn,Kristopher W. Kerry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520238510

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The Early Upper Paleolithic Beyond Western Europe by P. Jeffrey Brantingham,Steven L. Kuhn,Kristopher W. Kerry Pdf

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Author : Robert Hosfield
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785707643

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The Earliest Europeans by Robert Hosfield Pdf

The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, and available resources. Current research has provided increasingly robust archaeological and Quaternary Science records, but there are ongoing uncertainties as to both the earliest Europeans’ specific survival strategies and behaviours, and the character of their dispersals into Europe. In short, how sustained and ‘successful’ were the individual phases of European occupation by Lower Palaeolithic hominins and what sorts of ‘human’ where they? Using a season-by-season chapter structure to explore, for example, the contrasting demands and opportunities of winter versus summer survival, Hosfield explores how foods and other resources would vary across the four seasons in quantity and quality, and the resulting implications for hominin behaviours. Text boxes provide the background on key issues, and the book draws on a range of supporting evidence including technology (e.g. the nature of Lower Palaeolithic stone tools; the evidence for organic tools), hominin life history (e.g. the length of infant dependency; the nature of ‘parenting’; the implications of different mating models; the Social Brain Hypothesis), cognitive studies (e.g. brain scanning research into possible planning capabilities) and potential bias in the archaeological record (e.g. in terms of what is and isn’t preserved). By testing the likelihood of different scenarios by comparing short-term, site-based insights with long-term, regional trends, Hosfield is able to out forward ideas on how our earliest European ancestors survived and what their lives were like.

Author : Desmond Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038925478

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Palaeolithic Europe by Desmond Collins Pdf

Author : John Robb,Oliver J. T. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521195287

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The Body in History by John Robb,Oliver J. T. Harris Pdf

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 : William Davies,Ruth Charles
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705229

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Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic by William Davies,Ruth Charles Pdf

Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into dangerous regions such as Kurdistan. Her first and highly successful excavation revealed fragments of Neanderthal fossils in Gibralter. This volume reviews modern research on this site, as well as exploring other issues which interested the Disney Professor of Archaeology: hominid remains from Mount Carmel; Palaeolithic sites in the Zagros Mountains, Bulgaria and Britain; and the cultural evidence for the beginning of Near Eastern food production, which Garrod called Natufian. Also included are papers concerned with her life, background and published work. The topics' span and continuing relevance are testament to Dorothy Garrod's remarkable character and great achievements.

Author : M. C. Burkitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107696846

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Prehistory by M. C. Burkitt Pdf

This 1921 book discusses the early civilizations of Europe and North Africa, providing readers with an introduction to prehistoric societies.

Author : Clive Gamble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521245141

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The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe by Clive Gamble Pdf

A major survey of the prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies of Europe, this book reviews the topical information and interpretations for scientific research. Palaeolithic studies are at an exciting point of transition. The explosion in ethno-archaeological studies has fundamentally challenged our models and interpretations amongst all classes of data and at all spatial scales of analysis. Furthermore the traditional concerns of dating and quaternary studies have also passed through their own revolutions and palaeolithic archaeology is the direct beneficiary. Dr Gamble presents in an imaginative but comprehensive framework our changing perspectives of Europe's oldest societies.

Author : Valentina Borgia,Emanuela Cristiani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9088905843

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Palaeolithic Italy by Valentina Borgia,Emanuela Cristiani Pdf

The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to various well-researched regional hotspots in central and western Europe. This volume aims to fill that gap by presenting the latest advances in Palaeolithic research in Italy.

Author : Sarunas Milisauskas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461507512

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European Prehistory by Sarunas Milisauskas Pdf

Sarunas Milisauskas· 1.1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is four-fold: to introduce English-speaking students and scholars to some of the outstanding archaeological research that has been done in Europe in recent years; to integrate this research into an anthropological frame of reference; to address episodes of culture change such as the transition to farming; the origin of complex societies, and the origin of urbanism, and to provide an overview of European prehistory from the earliest appearance of humans to the rise of the Roman empire. In 1978, the Academic Press published my book European Prehistory which, typically for that period, emphasized cultural evolution, culture process, technology, environment, and economy. To produce a new version and an up- to-date prehistory of Europe, I have invited contributions from specialists in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Thus while this version of European Prehistory is a new book, however, it still incorporates some data from the 1978 version, particularly in The Present Environment and Neolithic chapters. Like its predecessor, this edition is structured around selected general topics, such as technology, trade, settlement, warfare, and ritual.