Soffer / Struever The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-8918-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 539 Seiten, Web PDF

The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain examines the hunter-gatherer adaptations on the Upper Paleolithic central Russian Plain. The book offers both a culture history for the area and an explanation for the changes in human adaptation. It presents what has been found at 29 major Upper Paleolithic sites occupied over a period of some 14,000 years. The book presents details of the archaeological inventories and assemblages found at the 29 sites, together with the geography and geology of the study area. It then uses environmental data to model environmental conditions and resource distribution during the various periods of human occupation, as well as to predict optimal strategies for exploiting available resources. Subsequent chapters present the relative and chronometric dating schemes. The book also elucidates the man-land relationships, ensuing subsistence strategies, settlement types present in the archaeological record, settlement systems, and sociopolitical behavior. The text will be significant to archaeologists, paleoecologists, and anthropologists interested in hunter-gatherers and late Pleistocene adaptations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soffer, Olga

Struever, Stuart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Dedication;6
6;List of Figures;12
7;List of Tables;18
8;Preface;22
9;Acknowledgments;24
10;Chapter 1. Introduction;26
10.1;OBJECTIVES AND SIGNIFICANCE;26
10.2;PAST RESEARCH IN THE STUDY AREA;32
10.3;HISTORY OF PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE USSR;33
10.4;METHODOLOGY AND ASSUMPTIONS;40
11;Chapter 2. Upper Paleolithic Sites on the Central Russian Plain;43
11.1;GEOGRAPHY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE STUDY AREA;43
11.2;PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY;51
11.3;PROFILES OF THE SITES;62
11.4;RAW DATA TABLES;139
12;Chapter 3. The Environmental Given;169
12.1;THE STUDY AREA TODAY;169
12.2;GENERAL FEATURES OF THE LATE VALDAI;172
12.3;THE BRYANSK INTERSTADIAL: 27,000–24,000 B.P.;182
12.4;ENVIRONMENT BETWEEN 24,000 AND 20,000 B.P.;194
12.5;THE VALDAI MAXIMUM: 20,000–18,000 B.P.;198
12.6;CLIMATE AFTER THE GLACIAL MAXIMUM: 18,000–12,000 B.P.;201
12.7;THE STRUCTURE OF THE LANDSCAPE IN THE LATE VALDAI;209
13;Chapter 4. Chronology and Land Use;237
13.1;RELATIVE DATING OF THE SITES;237
13.2;CHRONOMETRIC DATING OF THE SITES;252
13.3;PROPOSED CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERING OF THE SITES;257
13.4;UPPER PALEOLITHIC LAND USE: THE LOCATION OF THE SITES;259
13.5;CONCLUSIONS;272
14;Chapter 5. Subsistence Practices and Duration of Occupation in the Late Valdai;274
14.1;METHODOLOGY;274
14.2;SUBSISTENCE AND FLORAL RESOURCES;276
14.3;STORAGE STRATEGIES;278
14.4;SUBSISTENCE AND FAUNAL RESOURCES;283
14.5;SEASONALITY OF OCCUPATION;353
14.6;MODELING CHANGES IN SUBSISTENCE PRACTICES;375
15;Chapter 6. Site Types and the Settlement System;379
15.1;SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS: PRESENT AND PAST;379
15.2;DATA FROM THE CENTRAL RUSSIAN PLAIN;382
15.3;CLASSIFICATORY METHODOLOGY;411
15.4;TYPES OF SITES ON THE CENTRAL RUSSIAN PLAIN;413
15.5;POPULATION AND DURATION OF OCCUPATION;429
15.6;SETTLEMENT SYSTEM ANALYSIS;442
16;Chapter 7. Sociopolitical Integration;458
16.1;INTRODUCTION;458
16.2;ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODOLOGY;459
16.3;SOCIAL NETWORKS;460
16.4;SOCIOPOLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS AND ORGANIZATION;477
16.5;RITUAL BEHAVIOR;493
16.6;SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS;495
17;Chapter 8. Conclusions and Implications;501
17.1;INTRODUCTION;501
17.2;DATA AND MODELS;501
17.3;PROBLEMS OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE;505
17.4;THE CENTRAL RUSSIAN PLAIN MICROCOSM AND THE EUROPEAN UPPER PALEOLITHIC WORLD;509
17.5;THE DATA AND OUR THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS;513
18;References;520
19;Index;552