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| Summary: | This volume brings together examples of research carried out at a variety of spatial and temporal scales of analysis, all focused on Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in Europe. The contributors represent a wide range of theoretical perspectives. The various theoretical and methodological attempts recounted thus represent different approaches to the understanding of a single, well-studied macro-region during a crucial transitional period. The economic intensification exhibited by some of the hunter-gatherers of Late Pleistocene Europe laid the groundwork for the subsequent development of agriculture and the increasing cultural complexity that accompanied this revolution in human prehistory. Thus, the papers contained in this volume have broader implications and applications for a more accurate understanding of the role played by the concept of the region in anthropological and archaeological theory, as well as for a more accurate understanding of the people who inhabited them in the prehistoric past.
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| Item Description: | "The present volume ... was inspired by a pair of symposia held at two successive annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. The first, 'Situational adaptationin the Late Pleistocene of Western Europe,' was held at the 60th annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 3-7, 1995. The success ... resulted in another symposium 'Regional-scale variation in Late Pleistocene Western Europe,' at the 61st annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10-14, 1996"--P. vii. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 229 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| ISBN: | 1841711551 |
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