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New approaches to the study of early upper Paleolithic 'transitional' industries in western Eurasia : transitions great and small / edited by Julien Riel-Salvatore, Geoffrey A. Clark.

Contributor(s): Riel-Salvatore, Julien | Clark, Geoffrey A
Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.Description: viii, 178 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.ISBN: 9781407300320 (pbk.); 1407300326 (pbk.)Subject(s): Paleolithic period -- Eurasia | Stone age -- Eurasia | Human evolution -- Eurasia | Human behavior -- Eurasia | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Eurasia | Eurasia -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 936.01
Contents:
Asking new questions and using new methods to understand the middle-upper Paleolithic transition / Julien Riel-Salvatore and Geoffrey A. Clark -- Even the notion of a "transitional industry" is a suspect typological construct / Lawrence Guy Straus -- On the fate of the neanderthals and the middle-upper Paleolithic transition in western Europe / Francis B. Harrold -- The châtelperronian of Grotte XVI, Cénac-et-Saint-Julien (Dordogne, France) / Géraldine Lucas ... [et al.] -- "Transitional industries" from Neandertals to anatomically modern humans in continental Italy: present state of knowledge / Amilcare Bietti and Fabio Negrino -- New quantitative perspectives on the middle-upper Paleolithic transition: the view from the northern Mediterranean / Julien Riel-Salvatore and C. Michael Barton -- The middle/upper Paleolithic interface in Croatia / Ivor Karavanic -- Gulyás archaeology: the Szeletian and the middle to upper Palaeolithic transition in Hungary and Central Europe / Brian Adams -- Hafting and technological innovation in the western Eurasian middle Paleolithic / Michael S. Bisson -- Issues in the development of the early upper Paleolithic, and a "transitional" industry from the Zagros region / Deborah I. Olszewski -- Putting transition research in a broader context / Geoffrey A. Clark.
Summary: "This volume comprises essays first presented in the symposium Upper Paleolithic 'Transitional' Industries: New Questions, New Methods on March 21, 2002, at the 67th annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology.
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Asking new questions and using new methods to understand the middle-upper Paleolithic transition / Julien Riel-Salvatore and Geoffrey A. Clark -- Even the notion of a "transitional industry" is a suspect typological construct / Lawrence Guy Straus -- On the fate of the neanderthals and the middle-upper Paleolithic transition in western Europe / Francis B. Harrold -- The châtelperronian of Grotte XVI, Cénac-et-Saint-Julien (Dordogne, France) / Géraldine Lucas ... [et al.] -- "Transitional industries" from Neandertals to anatomically modern humans in continental Italy: present state of knowledge / Amilcare Bietti and Fabio Negrino -- New quantitative perspectives on the middle-upper Paleolithic transition: the view from the northern Mediterranean / Julien Riel-Salvatore and C. Michael Barton -- The middle/upper Paleolithic interface in Croatia / Ivor Karavanic -- Gulyás archaeology: the Szeletian and the middle to upper Palaeolithic transition in Hungary and Central Europe / Brian Adams -- Hafting and technological innovation in the western Eurasian middle Paleolithic / Michael S. Bisson -- Issues in the development of the early upper Paleolithic, and a "transitional" industry from the Zagros region / Deborah I. Olszewski -- Putting transition research in a broader context / Geoffrey A. Clark.

"This volume comprises essays first presented in the symposium Upper Paleolithic 'Transitional' Industries: New Questions, New Methods on March 21, 2002, at the 67th annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology.