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Perspectives on the past : theoretical biases in Mediterranean hunter-gatherer research

Title
Perspectives on the past : theoretical biases in Mediterranean hunter-gatherer research / edited by Geoffrey A. Clark.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1991.

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Additional Authors
Clark, Geoffrey A.
Description
xix, 538 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Paleolithic period > Mediterranean Region
  • Mesolithic period > Mediterranean Region
  • Hunting and gathering societies > Mediterranean Region
  • Anthropology, Prehistoric > Mediterranean Region
  • Archaeology > Mediterranean Region
  • 15.40 prehistory
  • Anthropology, Prehistoric
  • Antiquities
  • Archaeology
  • Hunting and gathering societies
  • Mesolithic period
  • Paleolithic period
  • Wildbeuter
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Jagers en verzamelaars
  • Theorieën
  • Prehistorie
  • Prehistoric peoples > Mediterranean Region
  • Mediterranean Region > Antiquities
  • Mediterranean Region
  • Mittelmeerraum
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-519) and indexes.
Contents
  • An examination of some models of late Pleistocene society in Southwestern Europe / Catherine S. Mueller-Wille and D. Bruce Dickson -- Paradigm found? : a research agenda for the study of the upper and post-Paleolithic in Southwest Europe / Lawrence Guy Straus -- A paradigm is like an onion : reflections on my biases / Geoffrey A. Clark -- Straight archaeology French style : the phylogenetic paradigm in historic perspective / James R. Sackett -- Retouched tools, fact or fiction? : paradigms for interpreting Paleolithic chipped stone / C. Michael Barton -- The elephant and the blind men : paradigms, data gaps and the middle-upper Paleolithic transition in Southwestern France / Francis B. Harrold.
  • Issues in biological and behavioral evolution and the problem of upper Pleistocene subsistence / Philip G. Chase -- A great thick cloud of dust : naming and dating in the interpretation of behavior in the late Paleolithic of Spain / Iain Davidson -- From hunter-gatherers to food producers in Northern Spain : smooth adaptive shifts or revolutionary change in the Mesolithic / Manuel R. González Morales -- Paradigmatic differences in a collaborative research project / Harold J. Dibble and André Debénath -- The community ecology perspective and the redemption of "contaminated" faunal records / Mary C. Stiner -- New problems, old glasses : methodological implications of an evolutionary paradigm for the study of Paleolithic technologies / Steven L. Kuhn.
  • Normal science and paradigmatic biases in Italian hunter-gatherer prehistory / Amilcare Bietti -- One flew over the hippo's nest : extinct Pleistocene fauna, early man, and conservative archaeology on Cyprus / Alan H. Simmons -- Paradigms and politics in the terminal Pleistocene archaeology of the Levant / Steven A. Rosen -- Social complexity in the Natufian? : assessing the relationship of ideas and data / Deborah I. Olszewski -- Historic biases in modern perceptions of the Levantine Epipaleolithic / Marcia L. Donaldson -- Foraging, sedentism, and adaptive vigor in the Natufian : rethinking the linkages / Donald O. Henry -- Stone tools and social context in Levantine prehistory / Ofer Bar-Yosef.
  • Comparative aspects of paradigms for the Neolithic transition in the Levant and the American Southwest / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul Fish -- Epilogue : paradigms, realism, adaptation, and evolution / Geoffrey A. Clark.
ISBN
  • 081228190X
  • 9780812281903
LCCN
91016444
OCLC
  • ocm23732108
  • 23732108
  • SCSB-1930957
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library