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Questioning the Answers: Re-solving Fundamental Problems of the Early Upper Paleolithic
Maureen A. Hays and Paul T. Thacker
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This volume is a collection of 18 papers resulting from a symposium organized for the Society of American Archaeology in Chicago in 1999. The objective was to facilitate discussion on the fundamental problems of the European Early Upper Paleolithic period (c.30k-45k BP), with special focus on innovative techniques, methods, or theoretical frameworks that have usefully resituated the problems and knowledge of the EUP. The work is divided into three sections – The transition from LMP to EUP; Questions of typological significance and technological organization; Explaining interassemblage variability. The sites and finds discussed range from Portugal and Spain as far as the Middle East and the Ukraine.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EDITORS' PREFACE
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PART I
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INTRODUCTION. THE TRANSITION FROM THE LATE MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC TO THE EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC: FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS AND REGIONAL UNDERSTANDINGS
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1. TIME, SPACE, AND CULTURAL PROCESS IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE-UPPER PALEOLITHIC TRANSITION
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2. NEANDERTAL/MODERN HUMAN INTERACTION IN EUROPE
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3. INVESTIGATING HUMAN ADAPTATIONS IN THE EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC
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4. NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK? SOME COMMENTS ON THE MIDDLE-UPPER PALEOLITHIC TRANSITION IN CANTABRIAN SPAIN
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5. DISCUSSION: THE LOGIC OF INFERENCE IN TRANSITION RESEARCH
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PART II
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INTRODUCTION. RE-SOLVING QUESTIONS OF TYPOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
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6. THE EASTERN SZELETIAN AT BURAN KAYA III (CRIMEA, UKRAINE) AND ITS PLACE IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER PALEOLITHIC TRANSITION
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7. THE BEAURONNIAN: AN EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC INDUSTRY FROM SOLVIEUX
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8. RUMINATIONS ON THE EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC AND A CONSIDERATION OF THE ZAGROS AURIGNACIAN
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9. CORES, TOOLS, OR BOTH? METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION FOR THE STUDY OF CARINATED LITHIC ELEMENTS: THE PORTUGUESE CASE
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10. THE ORIGIN OF DUFOUR BLADELET TORSION
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11. EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF AURIGNACIAN DUFOUR BLADELETS
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12. DISCUSSION: RE-SOLVING QUESTIONS OF TYPOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
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PART III
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INTRODUCTION. EXPLAINING INTERASSEMBLAGE VARIABILITY ACROSS SPACE AND THROUGH TIME: RESOLVING FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS
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13. VARIATION I LITHIC TECHNOLOGY AND RAW MATERIAL USE AMONG FRENCH ASSEMBLAGES OF THE PERIOD 42-28 KYA
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14. LITHO-ECONOMIC CONTINUITY AND CHANGE ACROSS THE MIDDLE-UPPER PALEOLITHIC TRANSITION IN BELGIUM
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15. SCALING THE EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC: A DIACRHONIC, REGIONAL MODEL OF SETTLEMENT IN PORTUGAL
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16. EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC HUNTING TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES IN SOUTHWEST FRANCE
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17. THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC AT GROTTE XVI (DORDOGNE, FRANCE): RICHNESS, EVENNESS, AND CAVE BEARS
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18. DISCUSSION: SPACE AND TIME
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Published: 2001
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407323862 (ebook)
- 9781841712840 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1005