Perspectives on the Past : Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #392228
ISBN: 081228190X
Series: Anniversary Collection. Physical description: 540 p.; 20 illus.; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-519) and indexes. Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An Examination of Some Models of Late Pleistocene Society in Southwestern Europe -- 3. Paradigm Found? A Research Agenda for Study of the Upper and Post- Paleolithic in Southwest Europe -- 4. A Paradigm is Like an Onion: Reflections on my Biases -- 5. Straight Archaeology French Style: The Phylogenetic Paradigm in Historic Perspective -- 6. Retouched Tools, Fact or Fiction? Paradigms for Interpreting Paleolithic Chipped Stone -- 7. The Elephant and the Blind Men: Paradigms, Data Gaps, and the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Southwestern France -- 8. Issues in Biological and Behavioral Evolution and the Problem of Upper Pleistocene Subsistence -- 9. A Great Thick Cloud of Dust: Naming and Dating in the Interpretation of Behavior in the Late Paleolithic of Spain -- 10. From Hunter-Gatherers to Food Producers in Northern Spain: Smooth Adaptive Shifts or Revolutionary Change in the Mesolithic -- 11. Paradigmatic Differences in a Collaborative Research Project -- 12. The Community Ecology Perspective and the Redemption of "Contaminated" Faunal Records -- 13. New Problems, Old Glasses: Methodological Implications of an Evolutionary Paradigm for the Study of Paleolithic Technologies -- 14. Normal Science and Paradigmatic Biases in Italian Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory -- 15. One Flew Over the Hippo's Nest: Extinct Pleistocene Fauna, Early Man, and Conservative Archaeology in Cyprus -- 16. Paradigms and Politics in the Terminal Pleistocene Archaeology of the Levant -- 17. Social Complexity in the Natufian? Assessing the Relationship of Ideas and Data -- 18. Historic Biases in Modern Perceptions of the Levantine Epipaleolithic -- 19. Foraging, Sedentism, and Adaptive Vigor in the Natufian: Rethinking the Linkages -- 20. Stone Tools and Social Context in Levantine Prehistory -- 21. Comparative Aspects of Paradigms for the Neolithic Transition in the Levant and the American Southwest -- 22. Epilogue: Paradigms, Realism, Adaptation, and Evolution -- Bibliography -- Site Index -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Contributors -- Backmatter. Subjects: Anthropology, Prehistoric Mediterranean Region; Archaeology Mediterranean Region; Hunting and gathering societies Mediterranean Region; Paleolithic period Mediterranean Region.
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