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Perspectives on the past : theoretical biases in Mediterranean hunter-gatherer research / edited by Geoffrey A. Clark

Contributor(s): Clark, Geoffrey AMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xix, 538 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 081228190XSubject(s): Paleolithic period -- Mediterranean Region | Mesolithic period -- Mediterranean Region | Hunting and gathering societies -- Mediterranean Region | Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Mediterranean Region | Archaeology -- Mediterranean Region | Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-519) and indexes

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