Hunters of the Golden Age : the Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia, 30,000 - 20,000 BP/ edited by Wil Roebroeks ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roebroeks, Wil.

Series:

Analecta praehistorica Leidensia 0169-7447 ; 31.

Analecta praehistorica Leidensia, 0169-7447 ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolithic period--Eurasia.

Paleolithic period.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Eurasia.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Eurasia.

Eurasia--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, 1999.

Contents:

Hunters of the golden age / Margherita Mussi, Wil Roebroeks and Jir̆í Svoboda

Neither warm and moist, nor cold and arid / Dale Guthrie and Thijs van Kolfschoten

Chronology of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic / Paul Pettitt

The Upper Palaeolithic population of Europe in an evolutionary perspective / Steven Churchill ... [et al.]

Gravettian technologies in social contexts / Olga Soffer

Periodisations and double standards in the study of the Palaeolithic / Wil Roebroeks and Raymond Corbey

Art between 30,000 and 20,000 bp / Jean Clottes

Echoes from the mammoth steppe / Margherita Mussi, Jacques Cinq-Mars and Pierre Bolduc

The Gravettian art of Eastern Europe as exemplified in the figurative art of Kostenki 1 / Ludmila Iakovleva

Gravettian body ornaments in western and central Europe / Yvette Taborin

The Brno II Upper Palaeolithic burial / Martin Oliva

Plenty ofmammoths but no humans? / Lars Larsson.

Human occupation in northeastern Europe during the period 35,000 - 18,000 bp / Pavel Pavlov and Svein Indrelid

The Siberian mosaic / Sergey Vasilʾev

The Gravettian in Moravia / Jiĭí Svoboda ... [et al.]

Some thoughts on pavlovian adaptations and their alternatives / Martin Oliva

Interior parts of the Carpathian Basin between 30,000 and 20,000 bp / Viola Dobosi

A scaricity of MUP sites in the Sava Valley, stratigraphic hiatus and/or depopulation / Anta Montet-White

The Gravettian in southwest Germany : environment and economy / Joachim Hahn

The Gravettian in southwest Germany : stylistic features, raw material resources and settlement patterns / Anne Scheer

The period 30,000 - 20,000 bp in the Rhineland / Gerhard Bosinki

The German Upper Palaeolithic 35,000 - 15,000 bp / Martin Street and Thomas Terberger

A marginal matter / Wil Roebroeks.

The Mid Upper Palaeolithic, 30,000 to 20,000 bp, in France / François Djindjian

Human adaptation to the climatic deterioration of the last Pleniglacial in southwestern France (30,000 to 20,000 bp) / Jean-Philippe Rigaud

Nature and culture in Portugal from 30,000 to20,000 bp / João Zilhão

Heading south / Margherita Mussi

Greece, 30,000 - 20,000 bp / Catherine Perlès.

Notes:

Chiefly papers originally presented at a workshop.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9073368162

OCLC:

46345399