9780306424380-030642438X-The Pleistocene Old World: Regional Perspectives (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

The Pleistocene Old World: Regional Perspectives (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

ISBN-13: 9780306424380
ISBN-10: 030642438X
Edition: n
Author: Olga Soffer
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 402 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780306424380
ISBN-10: 030642438X
Edition: n
Author: Olga Soffer
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 402 pages

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The Pleistocene Old World: Regional Perspectives (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) (ISBN-13: 9780306424380 and ISBN-10: 030642438X), written by authors Olga Soffer, was published by Springer in 1987. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Pleistocene Old World: Regional Perspectives (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.45.

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Regional approaches to past human adaptations have generated much new knowledge and understanding. Researchers working on problems of adaptations in the Holocene, from those of simple hunter-gatherers to those of complex sociopolitical entities like the state, have found this approach suitable for comprehension of both ecological and social aspects of human behavior. This research focus has, however, until recently left virtually un touched a major spatial and temporaI segment of prehistory-the Old World during the Pleistocene. Extant literature on this period, by and large, presents either detailed site speeific accounts or offers continental or even global syntheses that tend to compile site speeific information but do not integrate it into whole c~nstructs of funetioning so ciocuhural entities. This volume presents our current state of knowledge about a variety of regional adaptations that charaeterized prehistoric groups in the Old World before 10,000 B. P. The authors of the chapters consider the behavior of humans rather than that of objects or features and present data and models for variaus aspects of past cultures and for culture change. These presentations integrate findings and understandings derived from a number of related disciplines actively involved in researching the past. Data and interpretations are offered on a range of Old \yorld regions during the PaIeolithic, induding Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe, and chronological coverage spans from the Early to Late PIeisto cene.
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