From Kostenki to Clovis : Upper Paleolithic Paleo-Indian adaptations /

This volume is the first to offer Soviet-American comparative research on the Pleistocene hunter-gatherer groups who inhabited North America, Russia, and Ukraine. The similarities and differences in the archaeological records will help archaeologists of all nations to set an agenda for future resear...

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Other Authors: Soffer, Olga, Praslov, N. D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1993]
Series:Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : fluted points and female figurines
  • understanding Late Paleolithic people of the New and Old worlds / Olga Soffer and Nikolai Dmitrievich Praslov
  • The environment and human adaptation systems in prehistoric times / Vadim Mikhailovich Masson
  • Radiocarbon chronology for the Upper Paleolithic sites on the East European Plain / Yurii Stepanovich Svezhentsev
  • Upper Paleolithic adaptations in Central and Eastern Europe and man-mammoth interactions / Olga Soffer
  • The Kostenki-Avdeevo archaeological culture and the Willendorf-Pavlov-Kostenki-Avdeevo cultural unity / Gennadii Pavlovich Grigor'ev
  • Subsistence practices of Late Paleolithic groups along the Dnestr River and its tributaries / Ilia Aleksandrovich Borziyak
  • Two examples of terminal Paleolithic adaptations / Zoia Aleksandrovna Abramova.
  • Bones for stones : considerations of analogues for features found on the Central Russian Plain / Lewis R. Binford
  • Amvrosievka : a unique Upper Paleolithic site in Eastern Europe / Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Krotova and Nataliia Grigor'evna Belan
  • Determining Upper Paleolithic historicocultural regions : a case study / Pavel Iosifovich Boriskovskij
  • Criteria for estimating the duration of occupation at Paleolithic sites : an example from Kamennaia Balka II / Nataliia Borisovna Leonova
  • The technology and function of tools in the context of regional adaptations : a case study of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic of the northwestern Black Sea region / Galina Fedorovna Korobkova
  • Man and nature in Northeastern Europe in the Middle and Late Pleistocene / Boris Isaakovich Guslitzer and Pavel Yurievich Pavlov
  • The Pleistocene-Holocene boundary : environmental processes and social adaptations / Paul M. Dolukhanov
  • The ones that will not go away : a biased view of Pre-Clovis populations in the New World / J.M. Adovasio
  • Clovis-Folsom geochronology and climatic change / C. Vance Haynes, Jr.
  • North American High Plains Paleo-Indian hunting strategies and weaponry assemblages / George C. Frison
  • Paleo-Indian flaked stone technology in the North American High Plains / Bruce A. Bradley
  • Paleo-Indian archaeology in the High Plains and Rocky Mountains of Montana / Leslie B. Davis
  • Fluted points in the eastern forests / Dena F. Dincauze
  • Is there a Clovis adaptation? / David J. Meltzer
  • The center at the edge / Clive Gamble.