Sourcebook of Paleolithic transitions: methods, theories, and interpretations

As the study of Palaeolithic technologies moves towards a more analytical approach, it is necessary to determine a consistent procedural framework. The contributions to this timely and comprehensive volume do just that. This volume incorporates a broad chronological and geographical range of Palaeolithic material from the Lower to Upper Palaeolithic. The focus of this volume is to provide an analysis of Palaeolithic technologies from a quantitative, empirical perspective.As new techniques, particularly quantitative methods, for analyzing Palaeolithic technologies gain popularity, this work provides case studies particularly showcasing these new techniques. Employing diverse case studies, and utilizing multivariate approaches, morphometrics, model-based approaches, phylogenetics, cultural transmission studies, and experimentation, this volume provides insights from international contributors at the forefront of recent methodological advances. INDICE: Contributors.Acknowledgements.Preface.Foreword.Introduction.PART I: METHODOLOGICAL & THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES.Lycett, Stephen: Quantifying transitions: morphometric approaches to Palaeolithic variability and technological change .Blackwell, Bonnie: ESR dating at hominid and archaeological sites during the Plio-Pleistocene.Bar-Yosef, Ofer: Revolutions and Transitions in Prehistory.Soffer, Olga: The Politics of Rubicons And The Imagined Pasts.Straus,Lawrence: Has the notion of "transitions" in Paleolithic prehistory outlived its usefulness?.Gowlett, John: The long gradient of human evolution in relation to transitions in archaeology: proxy evidence, biological classification andunintended effects.Clark, Geoff: Accidents of History.Haynes, Gary: Between the Transitions.Chauhan, Parth R.: Assessing Palaeolithic Transitions in the Indian Subcontinent: Implications and Limitations.Korisettar, Ravi: Geologic andGeomorphic Perspectives on Hominin Dispersal into South Asia: an inquiry intothe dispersal routes and patterns of settlement.Discussion .PART II: CHANGES WITHIN THE LOWER PALEOLITHIC.Rogers, Mike et al.: From Nothing to Something: The Earliest Archaeological Record.Semaw, Sileshi: Early Acheulian at Gona: insights on the Oldowan-Acheulian technological transition.Harris, Jack W.K.: A reevaluation of the Oldowan to Acheulian transition against the background of the evolutionary changes seen in the emergence of Homo ergaster/early Homo erectus.Braun, David: Technological Change in the Early Stone Age: Evidence from the Koobi Fora Formation.Burdukiewicz, J.M.: Lower Palaeolithic transitions in northern latitudes of Eurasia .Belmaker, Miriam: The oak and the reed: Homininadaptability and patterns of environmental change in the Lower Pleistocene ofthe Levant ;.Discussion .PART III: LOWER TO MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC TRANSITIONS.Chazan, Michael: Assessing the Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition.Vishnyatsky, Leonid: Cultural dynamics in the Middle Paleolithic: gradual evolution, series of transitions, or undirected fluctuation?.Monnier, Gilliane: A closer look at typological trends across the Lower/Middle Paleolithic transition in Western Europe .Close, Angela: Forced and Unforced Transitions in Northern Africa .Brooks, Alison & Yellen, J.: From Acheulian to Middle Stone Age in Eastern Africa.Tryon, Christian: Is it the Middle Stone Age yet? An eastern African perspective on the Early to Middle Stone Age transition.Ajitprasad, P.: Developmental Trends and the Transition of the Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage in theSukhi Valley, Gujarat.Norton, Christopher: Chinese Middle - Late Pleistocene Transition Reexamined: Behavioural Perspectives.Williams, Martin A.J.: The impact of the Toba super-eruption on hominin populations.Discussion .Postscript: M. Camps & P. Chauhan.PART IV: MIDDLE TO UPPER PALAEOLITHIC TRANSITIONS.Bednarik, Robert: The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition revisited.Harrold, Francis: Historical Perspectives on the Transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic.Zilhao, Joao: Issues of sample association in the dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe.Adams, Brian: The Bükk Mountain Szeletian: Old and New Views on "Transitional" material from the Eponymous site of the Szeletian ;.Arrizabalaga, A.: Through the Looking-Glass. The most recent years of Cantabrian Research in Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition.Bernaldode Quiros, F.: Middle to Upper Paleolithic at Cantabrian Spain.Camps, Marta: Past and Present: The Mid-Upper Paleolithic Transition in SW Europe.Feblot-Augustins, J: Lithic raw material provenance studies in western and central Europe: a Paleolithic perspective.Karanavic, I & Patou-Mathis, M.: Middle/UpperPaleolithic interface at Vindija cave (Croatia): new results and interpretations.Riel-Salvatore, Julien: The Uluzzian as a Manifestation of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition.Montes, Lourdes: The Ebro Basin and the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic Transition: Data and Ideas.Ambrose, Stanley: Behavioral and Technological Transitions within the MSA and to the LSA in Eastern and Southern Africa.Willoughby, Pamela: From the Middle to the Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa.Olszewski, Deborah: Comparing Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transitions in the Middle East and Egypt.James, Hannah & Petraglia, Mike: The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in South Asia and Its Implications ;for Hominin Cognition and Dispersals.Shen, Chen: The Transition to Upper Palaeolithic in northern China.Pinto, Ana: The Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic of Sopeña (Asturias, Spain).Patou-Mathis, M.: The subsistence behaviours of the last Crimean Neanderthals (Ukraine).Montet-White, A.: From mammoth to reindeer hunting, impact of the LGM on hunting strategies in Central Europe.Discussion .PART V: THE LATER PALEOLITHIC.Steguweit, Leif: Testing the Aurignacian/ Gravettian transition in the Bistrita Valley (NE-Romania).Otte, Marcel: The Paleolithic-Mesolithic Transition.Martinez, Jorge (I. de la Torre & R. Mora): Discontinuity or continuity in the Mesolithic of the South-eastern Pyrenees.Leon, Elmo: Pan-American Transitions in the Terminal-Pleistocene/Early Holocene: Clovis Macroblades vs. El Inga Microblades.Adovasio, James: Meadowcroft Rockshelter andthe Pleistocene/Holocene Transition in Southwestern Pennsylvania ;.Graf, Kelly: Successful Human Colonization of the Siberian Mammoth-Steppe: A View from South-Central Siberia.Discussion .Postscript: M. Camps & P. Chauhan.

• ISBN: 978-1-4614-1368-4
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• Fecha Publicación: 28/03/2012
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