Perspectives on the Past : Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research / Geoffrey A. Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Geoffrey A., Editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolithic period--Mediterranean Region.

Paleolithic period.

Mesolithic period--Mediterranean Region.

Mesolithic period.

Hunting and gathering societies--Mediterranean Region.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Anthropology, Prehistoric--Mediterranean Region.

Anthropology, Prehistoric.

Archaeology--Mediterranean Region.

Archaeology.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 20 illus.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Perspectives on the Past shows how knowledge of the past is contingent and is largely determined by the social and intellectual milieu in which those who study it have received their training. In the original essays that comprise the volume, field archaeologists discuss their own biases and the effects these biases have on how they do their research on hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean.

Contents:

An examination of some models of late Pleistocene society in Southwestern Europe / Catherine S. Mueller-Wille and D. Bruce Dickson

Paradigm found? : a research agenda for the study of the upper and post-Paleolithic in Southwest Europe / Lawrence Guy Straus

A paradigm is like an onion : reflections on my biases / Geoffrey A. Clark

Straight archaeology French style : the phylogenetic paradigm in historic perspective / James R. Sackett

Retouched tools, fact or fiction? : paradigms for interpreting Paleolithic chipped stone / C. Michael Barton

The elephant and the blind men : paradigms, data gaps and the middle-upper Paleolithic transition in Southwestern France / Francis B. Harrold.

Issues in biological and behavioral evolution and the problem of upper Pleistocene subsistence / Philip G. Chase

A great thick cloud of dust : naming and dating in the interpretation of behavior in the late Paleolithic of Spain / Iain Davidson

From hunter-gatherers to food producers in Northern Spain : smooth adaptive shifts or revolutionary change in the Mesolithic / Manuel R. González Morales

Paradigmatic differences in a collaborative research project / Harold J. Dibble and Andre Debenath

The community ecology perspective and the redemption of "contaminated" faunal records / Mary C. Stiner

New problems, old glasses : methodological implications of an evolutionary paradigm for the study of Paleolithic technologies / Steven L. Kuhn.

Normal science and paradigmatic biases in Italian hunter-gatherer prehistory / Amilcare Bietti

One flew over the hippo's nest : extinct Pleistocene fauna, early man, and conservative archaeology on Cyprus / Alan H. Simmons

Paradigms and politics in the terminal Pleistocene archaeology of the Levant / Steven A. Rosen

Social complexity in the Natufian? : assessing the relationship of ideas and data / Deborah I. Olszewski

Historic biases in modern perceptions of the Levantine Epipaleolithic / Marcia L. Donaldson

Foraging, sedentism, and adaptive vigor in the Natufian : rethinking the linkages / Donald O. Henry

Stone tools and social context in Levantine prehistory / Ofer Bar-Yosef.

Comparative aspects of paradigms for the Neolithic transition in the Levant and the American Southwest / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul Fish

Epilogue : paradigms, realism, adaptation, and evolution / Geoffrey A. Clark.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-519) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

ISBN:

9781512801811

151280181X

9780585121970

0585121974

OCLC:

1013940737