Humans at the end of the Ice Age : the archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition /
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| Imprint: | New York : Plenum Press, c1996. |
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| Description: | xiii, 378 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology. The language of science Language of science. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2534275 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Introduction. Ch. 1. The World at the End of the Last Ice Age / Lawrence Guy Straus
- Pt. II. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Africa and the Near East / Lawrence Guy Straus. Ch. 2. At the Transition: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in Southern Africa / Peter J. Mitchell, Royden Yates and John E. Parkington. Ch. 3. Plus Ca Change: The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Northeast Asia / Angela E. Close. Ch. 4. The Impact of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Climatic Changes on Humans in Southwest Asia / Ofer Bar-Yosef
- Pt. III. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Europe / Berit Valentin Eriksen. Ch. 5. The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Southwest Europe / Lawrence Guy Straus. Ch. 6. Resource Exploitation, Subsistence Strategies, and Adaptiveness in Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Northwest Europe / Berit Valentin Eriksen. Ch. 7. The North European Plain and Eastern Sub-Balticum between 12,700 and 8,000 bp / Romuald Schild. Ch. 8. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition on the East European Plain / Pavel M. Dolukhanov
- Pt. IV. Asia and Australia During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition / Jon M. Erlandson. Ch. 9. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Greater Australia / Jim Allen and Peter Kershaw. Ch. 10. Human Activities and Environmental Changes during the Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene in Southern Thailand and Southeast Asia / Surin Pookajorn. Ch. 11. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Japan and Adjacent Northeast Asia: Climate and Biotic Change, Broad-Spectrum Diet, Pottery, and Sedentism / C. Melvin Aikens and Takeru Akazawa. Ch. 12. Siberia in the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial / William R. Powers
- Pt. V. Environments and Peoples at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in the Americas / David R. Yesner. Ch. 13. Human Adaptation at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary (circa 13,000 to 8,000 bp) in Eastern Beringia / David R. Yesner. Ch. 14. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition along the Pacific Coast of North America / Jon M. Erlandson and Madonna L. Moss. Ch. 15. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition on the Plains and Rocky Mountains of North America / George C. Frison and Robson Bonnichsen. Ch. 16. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Eastern United States / Dan F. Morse, David G. Anderson and Albert C. Goodyear. Ch. 17. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Southern South America / Luis Alberto Borrero
- Pt. VI. Conclusion. Ch. 18. Surprises, Recurring Themes, and New Questions in the Study of the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial / Michael A. Jochim.