Perspectives on the Past : Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research

by: Clark, G.A.

Price: 51,07 EURO

1 copy in stock

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

Author:Geoffrey A. Clark

Summary:Explores how knowledge of the past is largely determined by the social and intellectual milieux in which archaeologists have received their training. Contributors discuss their own biases and the effects these biases have had on their research into hunter-gatherer activities in the Mediterranean.

xix, 538 pages ; 24 cm

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

Perspectives on the Past : Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research

by: Clark, G.A.

• ISBN-13: 9780812281903 / 978-0-8122-8190-3
• ISBN-03: 081228190X / 0-8122-8190-X
• University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1991

Price: 51,07 EURO

1 copy in stock