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The world at 18 000 BP / edited by Olga Soffer, Clive Gamble.

By: Soffer, Olga
Contributor(s): Gamble, Clive | Society for American Archaeology. Annual meeting (52: 1987: Toronto)
Language: English Publisher: London : Unwin Hyman, 1990.Description: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23.5 cm.ISBN: 0044451261; 004445127X
Contents:
Contents: Vol. 1, High latitudes (L53760); Vol. 2, Low latitudes (L53761). - Volume contents: Vol. 1: Pleistocene polyphony: the diversity of human adaptations at the last glacial maximum / C. Gamble, O. Soffer; Living in the last high glacial / T.H. van Andel; The last pleniglacial in the Paris basin / B. Schmider; The Northwestern European Plain around 18 000 BP / M. Otte; The last pleniglacial in the south of France / J. - P. Rigaud, J.F. Simek; The last glacial maximum in Cantabrian Spain / L.G. Straus; The Portuguese Estremadura at 18 000 BP / J. Zilhão; Continuity and change in Italy at the last glacial maximum / M. Mussi; The Balkans at 18 000 BP / G. Bailey, C. Gamble; Germany at 18 000 BP / G. - C. Weniger; Moravia during the upper pleniglacial / J. Svoboda; Northern central Europe c. 18 000 BP / J.K. Kozlowski; The Russian plain at the last glacial maximum / O. Soffer; Environmental conditions and human occupation of northern Eurasia during the late Valdai / A.A. Velichko, E.I. Kurenkova; Central Asian hunter- gatherers at the last glacial maximum / R.S. Davis; China at the last glacial maximum / Chun Chen, J.W. Olsen; Japan and Korea at 18 000 BP / T.E.G. Reynolds, S.C. Kaner; New world paleoecology at the last glacial maximum and the implications for new world pre-history / G.C. Frisson, D. N. Walker; Afterword: minitime and megaspace in the Paleolithic at 18 K and otherwise / H.M. Wobst; Vol. 2: The distribution of human settlement in the extra-tropical Old world / T. Madeyska; North Africa at 18 000 BP / A.E. Close, F. Wendorf; The last glacial maximum in the Mediterranean Levant / O. Bar-Yosef; The last glacial maximum in the Jordanian desert / B.F. Byrd, A.N. Garrard; Kebaran occupation of the last glacial maximum in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley / P.C. Edwards; The glacial maximum in tropical Africa / A.S. Brooks, P. Robertshaw; Changes in the archaeological record in South Africa at 18 000 BP / J. Deacon; A paleoecological model for archaeological site distribution in Southern Africa during the upper pleniglacial and late glacial / P. Mitchell; Zimbabwe at 18 000 BP / N.J. Walker; A view from the south: southern Africa before, during, and after the last glacial maximum / J. Parkington; South Asian climate and environment at c. 18 000 BP / D.P. Agrawal, R. Dodia, M. Seth; Hunter-gatherers of the terminal pleistocene in Uttar Pradesh, India / V. Jayaswal; From late pleistocene to early holocene in Sundaland / P. Bellwood; From Kakadu to Kutikina: the southern continent at 18 000 years ago / Rhys Jones; Environmental history in southwestern New South Wales / Harry Allen; Afterword / H.M. Wobst.
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Book Book British Museum Britain Europe and Prehistory Orsman PAL 7 G V. 1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 10015782
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Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KEC [SOF-] V.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L53761
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KEC [SOF-] V.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 06/02/2024 L53760
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Papers presented at the Symposium "Hunter-gatherers at the Last Glacial Maximum: the global record" held during the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Toronto, Canada in May 1987.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Vol. 1, High latitudes (L53760); Vol. 2, Low latitudes (L53761). - Volume contents: Vol. 1: Pleistocene polyphony: the diversity of human adaptations at the last glacial maximum / C. Gamble, O. Soffer; Living in the last high glacial / T.H. van Andel; The last pleniglacial in the Paris basin / B. Schmider; The Northwestern European Plain around 18 000 BP / M. Otte; The last pleniglacial in the south of France / J. - P. Rigaud, J.F. Simek; The last glacial maximum in Cantabrian Spain / L.G. Straus; The Portuguese Estremadura at 18 000 BP / J. Zilhão; Continuity and change in Italy at the last glacial maximum / M. Mussi; The Balkans at 18 000 BP / G. Bailey, C. Gamble; Germany at 18 000 BP / G. - C. Weniger; Moravia during the upper pleniglacial / J. Svoboda; Northern central Europe c. 18 000 BP / J.K. Kozlowski; The Russian plain at the last glacial maximum / O. Soffer; Environmental conditions and human occupation of northern Eurasia during the late Valdai / A.A. Velichko, E.I. Kurenkova; Central Asian hunter- gatherers at the last glacial maximum / R.S. Davis; China at the last glacial maximum / Chun Chen, J.W. Olsen; Japan and Korea at 18 000 BP / T.E.G. Reynolds, S.C. Kaner; New world paleoecology at the last glacial maximum and the implications for new world pre-history / G.C. Frisson, D. N. Walker; Afterword: minitime and megaspace in the Paleolithic at 18 K and otherwise / H.M. Wobst; Vol. 2: The distribution of human settlement in the extra-tropical Old world / T. Madeyska; North Africa at 18 000 BP / A.E. Close, F. Wendorf; The last glacial maximum in the Mediterranean Levant / O. Bar-Yosef; The last glacial maximum in the Jordanian desert / B.F. Byrd, A.N. Garrard; Kebaran occupation of the last glacial maximum in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley / P.C. Edwards; The glacial maximum in tropical Africa / A.S. Brooks, P. Robertshaw; Changes in the archaeological record in South Africa at 18 000 BP / J. Deacon; A paleoecological model for archaeological site distribution in Southern Africa during the upper pleniglacial and late glacial / P. Mitchell; Zimbabwe at 18 000 BP / N.J. Walker; A view from the south: southern Africa before, during, and after the last glacial maximum / J. Parkington; South Asian climate and environment at c. 18 000 BP / D.P. Agrawal, R. Dodia, M. Seth; Hunter-gatherers of the terminal pleistocene in Uttar Pradesh, India / V. Jayaswal; From late pleistocene to early holocene in Sundaland / P. Bellwood; From Kakadu to Kutikina: the southern continent at 18 000 years ago / Rhys Jones; Environmental history in southwestern New South Wales / Harry Allen; Afterword / H.M. Wobst.

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