The Middle Palaeolithic Occupation Of Europe

Author : Wil Roebroeks,Clive Gamble
Publisher : Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : European Science Foundation. Workshop
Publisher : Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019568828

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The Earliest Occupation of Europe by European Science Foundation. Workshop Pdf

This collection of papers arises from a meeting of distinguished scholars at Tautavel in 1993, sponsored by the European Science Fund. The aim of the meeting was to discuss and review the evidence for the earliest occupation of different European regions, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and from the United Kingdom to the Russian Plains and including neighbouring areas such as the Caucasus and Northern Africa. Discussion focused on four themes: chronology, environment, industries and subsistence. The central dispute between proponents of the Long chronology (placing the first hominids in Europe almost 2m years ago) and the supporters of a Short chronology (no hominids until 500,000 years ago) is covered in detail. The disputed 1.5m years are crucial to our understanding of how our earliest ancestors adapted to the European environment and this book will be crucial in furthering the debate.

Author : Terry Hopkinson
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070947653

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The Middle Palaeolithic Leaf Points of Europe by Terry Hopkinson Pdf

An investigation of the relations between heterogeneity in the material world and variations in human behaviour, particularly landscape settlement and stone tool fabrication, in the European Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. A theoretical approach termed ecological geography is developed. This approach is applied to the Middle leaf point industries of Europe, and in particular the Middle Palaeolithic of the Altmuhl Valley in Bavaria.

Author : P. Jeffrey Brantingham,Steven L. Kuhn,Kristopher W. Kerry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Dimitra Papagianni
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X006101650

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Middle Palaeolithic Occupation and Technology in Northwestern Greece by Dimitra Papagianni Pdf

This work re-examines the evidence from open-air sites in northwestern Greece, an area where these sites show a dense and patterned distribution. It shows that open-air sites have the potential to offer a broader picture of industrial variability and regional adaptations than does the study of isolated rockshelters. The technological analysis of the lithic collections from surface finds reveals geographical patterns of variability in the application of primary flaking techniques. It is proposed that this technological variability reflects temporal modifications in Middle Palaeolithic settlement patterns, themselves triggered by oscillations in climate and sea levels. At a methodological level, this study shows the use that can be made of typological-technological analyses of low time resolution lithic assemblages, thus contributing to the development of fieldwork strategies and analytical methodologies appropriate for research in Palaeolithic open-air sites. These sites remain under-investigated in Europe, resulting in distortions in our knowledge of the European Palaeolithic.

Author : Margherita Mussi,Jiri Svoboda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9073368154

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Hunters of the Golden Age: the Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia 30, 000 - 20, 000 BP by Margherita Mussi,Jiri Svoboda Pdf

Author : Robert Hosfield
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785707629

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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 : Ann Van Baelen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462700987

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The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Northwestern Europe by Ann Van Baelen Pdf

A well‐preserved early Middle Palaeolithic site set against a wider northwestern European context The shift from Lower to Middle Palaeolithic in northwestern Europe (dated to around 300,000–250,000 years ago) remains poorly understood and underexplored compared to more recent archaeological transitions. During this period, stone tool technologies underwent significant changes but the limited number of known sites and the general low spatio‐temporal resolution of the archaeological record in many cases has impeded detailed behavioural inferences. Brickyard‐quarrying activities at Kesselt‐Op de Schans (Limburg, Belgium) led to the discovery and excavation of a well‐preserved early Middle Palaeolithic level buried beneath a 10 m thick loess-palaeosol sequence. The present volume offers a comprehensive report on the site, dated to around 280,000 years ago, set against a wider northwestern European context. An in‐depth study of the lithic assemblage, including an extensive refitting analysis, provides detailed information on the technological behaviour of prehistoric hominins in the Meuse basin during this crucial time period. Contributors: Jozef J. Hus (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium), Frank Lehmkuhl (RWTH Aachen University), Erik P.M. Meijs (ArcheoGeoLab), Philipp Schulte (RWTH Aachen University), Ann Van Baelen (KU Leuven and University of Cambridge), Philip Van Peer (KU Leuven), Joerg Zens (RWTH Aachen University)

Author : Nick Ashton,Simon Lewis,Chris Stringer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0444535985

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The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain by Nick Ashton,Simon Lewis,Chris Stringer Pdf

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. Study of changes in climate, landscape and biota over the last million years provides the environmental backdrop to understanding human presence and absence together with the development of new technologies. This book brings together the multidisciplinary work of the project. The chapters present the results of new fieldwork and research on old sites from museum collections using an array of new analytical techniques. Features an up-to-date treatment of the record of human presence in the British Isles during the Palaeolithic period (700,000 - 10,000 years before present) Takes multidisciplinary approach that includes archaeology, geochemistry, geochronology, stratigraphy and sedimentology Coincides with the culmination of the AHOB project in 2010, providing a benchmark statement on the record of human occupation in Britain that can be utilized and tested by future research

Author : D. K. Bhattacharya,Dibyendu Kanti Bhattacharya
Publisher : Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018681208

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

Author : Paul Pettitt,Mark White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415674546

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The British Palaeolithic by Paul Pettitt,Mark White Pdf

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation to the end of the Ice Age. It fills a major gap in teaching resources as well in research by providing a current synthesis of the latest research on the period.

Author : Clive Gamble,Martin Porr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134453504

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Hominid Individual in Context by Clive Gamble,Martin Porr Pdf

This book explores new approaches to the remarkably detailed information that archaeologists now have for the study of our early ancestors. Rather than explaining the archaeology of stones and bones as the product of group decisions, the contributors investigate how individual action created social life. This challenge to the accepted standpoint of the Palaeolithic brings new models and theories into the period; innovations that are matched by the resolution of data preserving individual action among the stones and bones. The volume brings together examples from recent excavations such as Boxgrove, Schöningen and Blombos Cave and the analyses of artefacts from Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene excavations in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Author : Erella Hovers,Steven Kuhn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387246611

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Transitions Before the Transition by Erella Hovers,Steven Kuhn Pdf

Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. The much-discussed split between advocates of a single, early emergence of anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa and supporters of various regional continuity positions is only part of the picture. Equally if not more important are questions surrounding the origins of modern behavior, and the relationships between anatomical and behavioral changes that occurred during the past 200,000 years. Although modern humans as a species may be defined in terms of their skeletal anatomy, it is their behavior, and the social and cognitive structures that support that behavior, which most clearly distinguish Homo sapiens from earlier forms of humans. This book assembles researchers working in Eurasia and Africa to discuss the archaeological record of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age. This is a time period when Homo sapiens last shared the world with other species, and during which patterns of behavior characteristic of modern humans developed and coalesced. Contributions to this volume query and challenge some current notions about the tempo and mode of cultural evolution, and about the processes that underlie the emergence of modern behavior. The papers focus on several fundamental questions. Do typical elements of "modern human behavior" appear suddenly, or are there earlier archaeological precursors of them? Are the archaeological records of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age unchanging and monotonous, or are there detectable evolutionary trends within these periods? Coming to diverse conclusions, the papers in this volume open up new avenues to thinking about this crucial interval in human evolutionary history.

Author : Fiona Coward,Robert Hosfield,Matt Pope,Francis Wenban-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107026889

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Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution by Fiona Coward,Robert Hosfield,Matt Pope,Francis Wenban-Smith Pdf

This volume provides a narrative of early hominin evolution, linking material aspects of the early archaeological record with social, cognitive and symbolic landscapes.

Author : Jennifer C. French
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.