Author: Dixie Lee WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Epigravettian Hunting Strategy and Animal Use in the Middle Danube
Author: Dixie Lee WestHunting Strategies in Central Europe During the Last Glacial Maximum
Author: Dixie Lee WestPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This study explores the roles of hunting and animal processing during the Last Glacial Maximum in the long-term evolutionary development of prehistoric societies. The database is derived primarily from the open-air campsite Grubgraben, Lower Austria. Current methods of zooarchaeology are used to reconstruct the socioeconomics of Epigravettian hunting. An ecological/behavioral model for prey species adaptation to the glacial environment of Central Europe is developed; and Epigravettian decisions, reflected by the types, parts, and quantities of prey carcasses transported, processed, and discarded, are defined. The behavior of extant ungulates and furbearers is used to reconstruct that of their ancient counterparts, identification and quantification of animal bones documents the economic importance of animal species from each site, and various other data indicating the methods and patterns of animal exploitation are analysed for the insight they can give into hunter-gatherer life and society at this period.
Local Organizational Adaptations to Climatic Change
Author: Jeff T. WilliamsPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The recent excavations at this Epigravettian site in Lower Austria enabled an investigation of local hunter-gatherer adaptive stratagies in response to the onset of severe ice-age conditions to be undertaken and monitored archaeologically.
Animal Husbandry and Hunting in the Central and Western Balkans Through Time
Author: Nemanja MarkovićPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789696941
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This volume presents the results of new research on animal herding and hunting in the central and western Balkans during the prehistoric and historic periods. The investigations cover a wide range of topics related to animal exploitation strategies, ranging from broad syntheses to specific case studies.
Guide
Author: American Anthropological AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Roman Domestic Architecture of Northern Italy
Author: Michele GeorgePublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN: 9780860548614
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The aim of the book is to identify and characterize the archaeological evidence for the Roman house in northern Italy and to determine its place in the larger study of Roman domestic architecture. It includes an extensive catalogue.
Horses and Humans
Author: Sandra L. OlsenPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Horses and Humans Symposium, held in 2000 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Powdermill Nature Preserve, in Rector, Pennsylvania, USA, in honor of Mary Aiken Littauer.
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Vicki CummingsPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191025275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1361
Book Description
For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.
The Palaeolithic Archaeology of Greece and Adjacent Areas
Author: Geoff BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A revised and updated version of the conference papers from the First International Conference held by the British School at Athens in Ioanna in September 1994. The book covers new results and syntheses on the archaeology and environmental history of the region and covers all the major stages of the Palaeolithic sequence.
Hunters, Fishers and Farmers of Eastern Europe, 6000-3000 B.C.
Author: Ruth TringhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317599462
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Eastern Europe, in this book, embraces the area formally referred to as the ‘Marchlands of Europe’, sometimes as Eastern Central Europe, and which included, when this book was originally published in 1971, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland. This book presented for the first time the archaeological material related to the prehistory of Central and West Europe, describing the evidence for the earlier prehistory – settlement patterns, means of subsistence and material culture – in the various natural environments of this area. It looks at the Baltic coast, the north and east European plains, the Carpathian mountain ring, the Danube basin and the Adriatic and Black Sea coasts. The evidence for late Mesolithic hunting-fishing groups is examined, their techniques and their reaction to the introduction and spread of agriculturalists, as well as the development and activities of both food-gatherers and food-producers until the early use and manufacture of metal objects. 3000 years of prehistory are covered in a way which is designed to be intelligible and useful to all those who are interested in prehistory and in eastern Europe.