Lower Palaeolithic small tools in Europe and the Levant /

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Meeting name:International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (14th : 2001 : Liege, Belgium)
Imprint:Oxford : Archaeopress, 2003.
Description:239 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Language:English
Series:BAR international series ; 1115
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5047962
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Other authors / contributors:Burdukiewicz, Jan Michał.
Ronen, Avraham.
International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.
ISBN:1841714933
Notes:Papers presented at a workshop held Sept. 3-7, 2001, in Liège, Belgium in cooperation with the XIV Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:In accordance with European Science Foundation regulations, Exploratory Workshops with a maximum of 20 participants were designed to encourage researchers from across Europe to put forward innovative and creative ideas in European research. The workshop 'Lower Palaeolithic small tools in Europe and the Levant' was accordingly held in Liege (Belgium) between September 3 - 7, 2001 (in cooperation with the XIVth Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences). Since the famous1960s' excavations in Vértesszõlõs (Hungary), Lower Palaeolithic assemblages of very small tools have been known in Europe and referred to as microlithic assemblages. They were so different from the known European Lower Palaeolithic assemblages, that the Hungarian archaeologist L. Vértes introduced the new generic name 'Buda Industry', and sparked a wider interest in this whole area of study. This volume (bringing together the current knowledge on a topic that includes the oldest hunting weapons known in the world: the Schöningen (Lower Saxony, Germany) wooden spears) includes the 15 papers that were prepared for the Workshop. Taking the main theme of the Workshop (the comparative technological and stylistic analysis of small tool assemblages in Europe and Asia) as a starting point, the 15 papers presented here (ordered spatially from west to east and temporally from the Lower to the Middle Palaeolithic: c. 1000 - 300 kyr BP), as well as discussing the "Buda Industry", also extend to cover such areas of interest as the "Lower Palaeolithic Microlithic Tradition", the "Colombanian", the "Archaic Industries" or "Taubachian", etc.
Item Description:Papers presented at a workshop held Sept. 3-7, 2001, in Liège, Belgium in cooperation with the XIV Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.
Physical Description:239 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1841714933