Author : Fondation Singer-Polignac. Colloque international
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN :
Author : Fredrik Arentz
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Stone age
ISBN :
Author : Anne O'Connor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191526940
Finding Time for the Old Stone Age explores a century of colourful debate over the age of our earliest ancestors. In the mid nineteenth century curious stone implements were found alongside the bones of extinct animals. Humans were evidently more ancient than had been supposed - but just how old were they? There were several clocks for Stone-Age (or Palaeolithic) time, and it would prove difficult to synchronize them. Conflicting timescales were drawn from the fields of geology, palaeontology, anthropology, and archaeology. Anne O'Connor draws on a wealth of lively, personal correspondence to explain the nature of these arguments. The trail leads from Britain to Continental Europe, Africa, and Asia, and extends beyond the world of professors, museum keepers, and officers of the Geological Survey: wine sellers, diamond merchants, papermakers, and clerks also proposed timescales for the Palaeolithic. This book brings their stories to light for the first time - stories that offer an intriguing insight into how knowledge was built up about the ancient British past.
Author : Shizuo Oda
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Paleolithic period
ISBN :
Author : William Davies
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785705202
Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into dangerous regions such as Kurdistan. Her first and highly successful excavation revealed fragments of Neanderthal fossils in Gibralter. This volume reviews modern research on this site, as well as exploring other issues which interested the Disney Professor of Archaeology: hominid remains from Mount Carmel; Palaeolithic sites in the Zagros Mountains, Bulgaria and Britain; and the cultural evidence for the beginning of Near Eastern food production, which Garrod called Natufian. Also included are papers concerned with her life, background and published work. The topics' span and continuing relevance are testament to Dorothy Garrod's remarkable character and great achievements.
Author : Marta Camps
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0387764879
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.
Author : F. Arentz
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 1911
Category :
ISBN :
Author : George Nash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000955338
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal presents significant interpretive perspectives in Portuguese rock art research and offers an excellent representation of core rock art areas, along with current thinking and interpretations. The various chapters deliver a personal approach to the many issues, themes and approaches that are embedded within the rock art of the outpost of western Atlantic Europe. Ethnographical perspectives have often dominated the study of rock art but unlike other well-studied regions, the western Iberian Peninsula is absent of an ethnographical or ethno-historical past and therefore the production of rock art can only be archaeologically assessed. Thus, the work promotes interpretive perspectives on Portuguese rock art, illustrating the richness, chronology and context of these unique artistic expressions and explores the variability of rock art imagery and the diversity of landscapes and social contexts in which it was produced. Although focusing on Portuguese rock art the book includes a number of universal themes that will appeal to a broad range of scholars researching in archaeology and anthropology, history of art, as well as professionals engaged in rock art heritage and conservation.
Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192854414
Provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire, providing information on the changing landscape of Europe and responses and adaptations to these changes.
Author : Ofer Bar-Yosef
Publisher : Radiocarbon Department of Geosciences University of Arizona
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
Klima - Umwelt - Geologie.
