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The Magdalenian Household
A comprehensive investigation of household life during the Upper Paleolithic era. What was home and family like in Paleolithic Europe? How did mobile hunter-gatherer families live, work, and play together in the fourteenth millennium BP? What were the functional and spatial constraints and markers of their domesticitythe processes that create and sustain a household? Despite the long recognized absence of comprehensive archaeological data on such ancient homes and hearths, the archaeologists in this volume begin unraveling the domesticity of the Upper Paleolithic by drawing on both an immense trove of new material evidence and comparative site data, and a range of incisive and illuminating...
Plant Processing from a Prehistoric and Ethnographic Perspective
This book contains papers in English and papers in French
Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools
This volume introduces a methodology, based on a systematic, in-depth study of prehension and hafting traces on experimental stone artifacts. The author proposes a number of distinctive macro- and microscopic wear traits for identifying handheld tools.
Ethno-archaeology and Its Transfers
Eight papers from the EAA meeting held in Bournemouth in 1999, focusing on the technical rather than theoretical aspects of using ethnographic case studies. The case studies come from Siberia, Spain, France, Portugal, Africa, Indonesia and New Guinea and focus on techniques of agricultural and craft production and
Flexible Stones
Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. Flexible Stones provides a detailed analysis of the material discovered during the excavations at Franchthi Cave, Peloponnese, Greece. Approximately 500 tools, the raw material used for their manufacture, as well as the byproducts of such manufacture were found. Most of this collection comes from the Neolithic component of the site—including a small number of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cases—with a large number of the studied tools indicating multiple uses. Anna Stroulia sees the multifunctional character of these tools as a conscious choice that reflects a flexible attitude of tool makers and users toward tools and raw materials.
Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe
Since its development in 1949, radiocarbon dating has increasingly been used in prehistoric research in order to get a better grip on the chronology of sites, cultures and environmental changes. Refinement of the dating, sampling and calibration methods has continuously created new and challenging perspectives for absolute dating. In these proceedings the focus lies on the contribution of carbon-14 dates in current Mesolithic research in North-West Europe. Altogether 40 papers dealing with radiocarbon dates from 15 different countries are presented. Major themes are the typo-technological evolution of lithic and bone industries, changes in settlement patterns, burial practices, demography and subsistence, human impact on the Mesolithic environment and the neolithisation process. Some papers also deal with more methodological aspects of carbon-14 dating (e.g. calculation of various reservoir effects, the use of cumulative calibrated probability distributions), and related techniques (e.g. stable isotope analysis for palaeodiet reconstruction).
Les Sites littoraux néolithiques de Clairvaux-les-Lacs et de Chalain (Jura) - Tome III
Pour la première fois au bord d'un lac (Chalain, Jura), l'architecture des maisons néolithiques est bien conservée, ce qui permet d'en proposer une reconstitution détaillée. A partir des milliers de bois travaillés, préservés dans les couches archéologiques, c'est la forêt de la fin du 4e millénaire qui se livre, puis les techniques d'abattage et la préparation des bois d'œuvre. Mais cette forêt secondaire issue de rejets de souche, c'est aussi la couverture arborée que les cultivateurs néolithiques défrichent et cherchent à reproduire, après une ou deux années de cultures céréalières. La forêt est encore davantage, car elle a enregistré les variations de la densité de population, au travers de la progression ou de la régression des fronts de défrichements. Cet ouvrage, comme les précédents, s'inscrit dans un programme de recherche pluridisciplinaire en vue de renouveler les problématiques et d'atteindre le niveau de raisonnements globaux où toutes les tendances de la recherche peuvent ensemble proposer les liaisons par et au-delà de leurs domaines spécifiques.
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