The hunting of horses by Magdalenians and Early Aziliens in the Paris Basin has never before been the object of a detailed study. This work thus brings to light the interactions between these human societies and the populations of horses within the palaeo-environmental framework of the Late Glacial. The original approach developed here is based on the elaboration of palaeo-ecological models concerning hunting practices in terms of tactics and strategies of hunting. Analysis of the exploitation of horses allows the author to highlight socio-economic patterns of Magdalenian and Early Azilian groups, and their integration within the Late Glacial regional landscape of the Paris Basin. French text.

This volume, subtitled The beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in the East Balkans: A taphonomic and techo-economic analysis of Bacho Kiro (level 11), Temnata (levels VI and 4) and Kozarnika (layer VII), presents a thorough documentation and critical analysis of these three important sites located in northern Bulgaria. The archaeological assemblages studied have been at the core of discussions concerning the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition which witnessed the disappearance of the Neanderthals and the dispersal of the first anatomically modern humans into Europe. French text.

This book narrates the story of human biological and cultural evolution, from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family Hominidae, through the emergence of Homo sapiens, to the Agricultural Revolution. It concludes with a brief overview of the subsequent diversification of cultural and technological traditions in all the areas our species inhabits. A particular focus is on the pattern of events/innovations in human biological and cultural evolution, which have tended not to proceed in lockstep. Prior to the emergence of Homo sapiens innovations of this kind were generally sporadic, and rare; since that event their frequency has been steadily increasing. Tattersall draws on his own research to demonstrate that the history of humankind has not been one of a singleminded struggle from primitiveness to perfection, but has rather been one of trial and error, of evolutionary experimentation that as often ended in failure as in success. In the process he thoroughly examines both the fossil and the archaeological records that document our human prehistory. All human beings have a thirst to know where they came from, whether as individuals or as a species. This book responds to this desire for knowledge, whether in the classroom where the subject has a place in history as well as in science curricula or in more informal contexts. There currently exist no high school texts or supplemental readings that treat this subject in an authoritative manner, written by a practicing scientist in the field. This volume will have the advantage of being written by one whose opinions are first hand, and conditioned by direct familiarity with the original evidence.

This work describes the technology and typology of stone industries in Corsica from the Mesolithic to the Chalcolithic, and is the first major synthesis on this material. French text.

This study comprises a highly innovative body of research on the supply of raw materials in prehistoric Iberia. The archaeological assemblages from recently excavated sites in north-eastern Spain are clearly presented, as are the various methods for the characterisation of flints and the determination of geological origins. The study is important in terms of the new data provided on raw material supply at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia and a reconstruction of mobility patterns and resource exploitation of hunter-gatherer groups during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. Spanish text.

This study focuses on a number of important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean area. The primary objective of the study is to provide a chronology for these sites based on finds from the rhinoceros fossil record. The first section of the book presents the sites (mostly from southern France and including the major locations at Vallonnet, la Pineta a Isernia and la Caune de l'Arago) and the detailed paleontological study follows in the second section. The work concludes with a number of Appendices presenting the data records. French text.

This volume presents the latest research on Iberian post-Palaeolithic rock art, using innovative methodologies and analyses. With six appendices of data and extensive site gazetteers, the work is essential for those specialists and general readers needing an up-to-the-minute account of this archaeological phenomenon. 6 appendices of data and sites. Spanish text.

This work is one of the first in-depth mollusc studies of the French coastal regions. It has direct implications for our understanding of the way of life of early Atlantic (France and adjacent countries) cultures. French text.

This is the first monograph to focus on the study of Early Neolithic groups along the Tagus river basin, in Central Spain. The author presents the first archaeological results on the Neolithic communities in the province of Caceres, Central Spain, establishing a theoretical and methodological framework to analyse the archaeological record. A large part of the work gathers together previous archaeological research on the area and presents new data obtained from a review of museum collections, surveys, and the excavation of the site of Los Barruecos, the main archaeological reference for the Early Neolithic in the region. Other chapters cover the Early Neolithic material culture, the archaeobotanical data and an analysis of faunal remains, among other data.

The ways in which the Hominids of the Middle Palaeolithic acquired megaherbivores is still a point of controversy. Did Neanderthals have sufficient intellectual and technological capacities to hunt these huge mammals? This volume presents methods relating to the acquisition and treatment of prey. These are applied directly to the study of three European sites marked by an important population of very large mammals: Hanhoffen (Bas-Rhin), Biache-Saint-Vaast (Pas-de-Calais) and le Mont-Dol (Ille-et-Vilaine). In addition, 73 archeological levels presenting more or less remains of very large herbivores, dated from Middle Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe, are compared. In French with English abstract.

A detailed study of the exploitation of small bovine species based on faunal assemblages from eight sites in the east Pyrenees, the Languedoc region of France, southern Turkey and the Caucasus. Four main species are identified ( Ovis, Hermitragus, Capra and Rupicapri ) and analysed, with comparisons drawn between the sites in the study, and with a view to investigating the subsistence behaviour of people living in these areas during the Pleistocene. Consideration of the effects of changing environmental conditions on species levels and human behaviour is also acknowledged. French text.

Aims at synthesizing the available archaeological evidence for the Bell Beaker phenomenon. The core of the work consists of chapters which respectively offer synthetic regional accounts of the Bell Beaker material expressions. These chapters first deal with north-western and central Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland), second with western Europe (France, Italy, Iberian Peninsula) and last with the British Isles. For the sake of comparison, which remains the ultimate goal of this research, all chapters are organized along the same lines and start with an examination of the various local substrata. Includes appendix of C14 dates. In French with English abstract.

This book draws on the complementary fields of visual cultural studies and interpretative archaeology to examine how successive generations transformed their visual culture to construct themselves. It explores this process through an extended case-study of art and social life in prehistoric south-east Italy, between the Upper Palaeolithic and the Bronze Age. A central argument of the book is that a wide range of visually communicative artworks were consumed and produced in the cultural process. Such objects range from portable artefacts, to installations within sites, to monumental structures in the landscape - all of which were interwoven with people's bodies in the experiences of daily life and special performances. More specifically, it is argued that these powerful aesthetic objects were actively used by people across space and time to perceive the world around them and to reproduce their social lives. They helped people to establish personal and collective boundaries, identities and relationships, to acquire and exercise power, to promote ideologies, and to contest them, especially at time of social tension.

These twenty-seven papers result from a conference held in Rome in 2002, organised by the American Academy in Rome and the Ecole Francaise de Rome. The conference brought together prehistorians, classical archaeologists and medievalists with the aim of discussing the archaeological methodology behind the analysis of industry and commerce in ancient Italy. Arranged thematically, the papers discuss: textile production, the supply of foodstuffs, commercial systems, the production and exchange of pottery, the production of glass and metal, the organisation of the building industry and historiographic studies. The temporal scope of the volume is large, covering the 2nd millennium BC to the medieval period. The case studies are well-illustrated and all begin with an English abstract. One paper in English, six in French, the rest in Italian. The introduction is in English.

This study of Neolithic tool assemblages from three sites in Syria addresses the question of transformations in lithic debitage from the 10th to 8th millennium BP. The changes witnessed are placed within the context of the economy and subsistence systems to reveal links between debitage development, especially blade variability, and hunting, husbandry and herding practices. Abbes argues that developments in blade debitages were geared towards the production of projectile points which has implications in terms of hunting and warfare. French text.

In the wealth of literature concerning Bell Beakers, the present volume is the first broad treatment of issues relating to their northeast frontier. The book has grown from papers read at the symposium Northeast Frontier of Bell Beakers held in the Institute of Prehistory, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznan on 26-29 May 2002. The 22 papers include: Economic continuity and political discontinuity in central Europe during the third millennium BC; Competing cosmos. On the relationships between corded ware and bell beaker mortuary practices; Bell beakers in the sequence of the cultural changes in south-western Baltic area; Bell beaker pottery in Denmark: its typology and internal chronology; Einfluesse der Glockenbecherkultur in Norddeutschland; Ein Siedlungsplatz der Glockenbecherkultur in Hamburg-Boberg?; Glockenbechereinfluesse und Regionale Gliederung Nordostdeutschlands im Spatneolithikum; Die Glockenbecherkultur in Mitteldeutschland ein Zwischenbericht; The north-eastern border of the influence of bell beakers; Reception of some bell beakers cultural patterns by corded ware societies in southeastern Baltic area; The Lubans, North Belarusian and Sagara cultures as an eastern phenomenon of an Eneolithic cultural unit; Northern and southern bell beakers in Poland; Bell beaker culture in south-eastern Poland; Archaeology of beaker settlements in Bohemia and Moravia: an outline of the current state of knowledge; Bell beaker and Unetice burial rites: continuity and change in funerary practices at the beginning of the Bronze Age; Contribution to the question of chipped stone industry of the Moravian bell beaker culture; A cemetery of the bell beaker culture in Marefy and its contribution: to the studies on the chipped stone industry of the Moravian late Eneolithic period; Glockenbecher in Ostosterreich - andere Fragen andere Antworten?; Die Glockenbecherkultur im Kontext der Kulturhistorischen Entwicklung in der Sudwestslowakei; The late phase of the bell beaker Csepel group in Hungary; Archaeobotanical remains and environment of bell-beaker Csepel-group; The northeast frontier of bell beakers - first step to outline.

11 papers from a session on Stone Age (Magdalenian) Europe presented at the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liege, in 2001. The contributions include: Reindeer and Red Deer populations in Central and Eastern Europe during the Magdalenian; Reconsidering hunting specialisation in the German Magdalenian faunal record; Acquisition and processing of reindeer in the Paris Basin; L'exploitation du cheval a la fin du Tardiglaciaire dans le Bassin parisien; Horse hunting and the utilization of horse carcasses during the Magdalenian in Europe; L'exploitation de la faune au Magdalenien en Suisse et dans les regions limitrophes; L' exploitation des Ongules au Magdalenien dans le Sud de la France; Technologie et strategies alimentaires des groupes humains du Cantabrique Occidental: le magdalenien superieur de la Grotte de Las Caldas (Priorio, Oviedo, Nord de l'Espagne); Characterization and exploitation of the Arctic Hare (Lepus timidus) during the Magdalenian: Surprising data from Gazel Cave (Aude, France); Des Magdaleniens et des Poissons; Exploitation des Oiseaux au Magdalenien en France: Etat des lieux.

Fourteen papers plus four posters from the Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. The contributors cover a series of subjects including technology in archaeology, statistical approaches to hominid evolution, palaeolithic cognition, analysing lithic tool use, the use of GIS and survey techniques, with case studies from Italy, France, Romania, Belgium and the United States.

Based on the author's thesis, this detailed study analyses lithic assemblages from epipalaeolithic and mesolithic sites in southern and south-west France - sites such as Fontfaures, de la Balma de la Margineda and de Buholoup et de l'Abeurador. Philibert presents much of the data in tabular form and uses this to interpret patterns of use and human behaviour such as the equipment used for hunting, the different subsistence strategies practised and the role of certain sites in the exploitation of regions as a whole. French text.

In a cultural area where geography conspires against ease of exchange, Mesoamerican societies discovered technical answers adapted to their needs. At a time when the exchange of merchandise and goods relied mainly on human transport, some civilizations turned to a mystical aquatic environment: lakes. This research focuses on the practice of lake navigation and specific facilities that are associated with it. Due to the need for a wholistic approach, this research is situated in a multidisciplinary framework that combines archaeology, ethnology and ethnohistory. Its primary objective is to elaborate the framework of a new research field from the analytical and systematic study of a corpus of eclectic data, about the exploitation of water as a means of transport. In Mesoamerica, the greatest concentration of lake systems lies in the Mexican highlands. However, only the Mexico and Patzcuaro Basin were converted into real political economic and cultural centres, with the emergence of the Mexica Empire and Tarascan State in the Late Postclassic period (1350-1521). Why then do archaeologists, ethnologists and historians persist in ignoring the true importance of navigation in their study of the formation and organization of these two civilizations? To what extent can we extract, from the study of boats and lake installations, data that can open new research perspectives? | Dans une aire culturelle ou la geographie conspire contre la fluidite des echanges, les societes mesoamericaines ont su trouver des reponses techniques adaptees a leurs besoins. A une epoque ou l'acheminement de marchandises et de biens s'effectue principalement a dos d'homme, certaines civilisations vont se tourner vers un milieu aquatique mythique : les lacs. Ce travail de recherche s'interesse donc a la pratique de la navigation lacustre et aux installations specifiques qui lui sont associees. De par la necessite d'une approche transversale, ce sujet se positionne dans un cadre pluridisciplinaire, entremelant archeologie, ethnohistoire et ethnologie. Son objectif premier est de delimiter le cadre d'un nouveau champ de recherche a partir d'une etude analytique et systematique d'un corpus de donnees eclectiques, autour de l'exploitation d'un mode de transport aquatique. En Mesoamerique, c'est dans les hautes terres mexicaines que seuls les lacs des Bassins de Mexico et de Patzcuaro ont ete convertis en de veritables centres politiques, economiques et culturels a l'origine de l'emergence de l'Empire mexica et du Royaume tarasque a la periode Postclassique (1350-1521). Pourquoi archeologues, historiens et ethnologues continuent donc d'ignorer la veritable importance de la navigation dans l'etude de la formation et de l'organisation de ces deux civilisations ? Dans quelle mesure les donnees que nous pourrons extraire de l'etude des embarcations et des installations lacustres peuvent-elles ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives de recherches ?

A translation of the rather long subtitle reveals the subject of this study as an analysis of the community interred in the prehistoric cemetery of Cova des Carritx on the island of Menora, which dates to c.1450-800 Cal BC. A description of the discovery of the site and the aims and methodology of the recovery of material from it are followed by detailed analyses of the human remains and other artefacts deposited as grave goods. Issues of taphonomy, funerary ritual, demography, biological characteristics of the population represented (also compared with other populations), stress indicators, diet and palaeopathology, and the possible representation of social inequalities at the site, are all discussed. Spanish text.

The theme of this 15th seminar of research by the Unite Mixte de Recherches 154 du CNRS de Lattes, held in Lattes-Montpellier in 2000, is the archaeology of animals. The thirteen French and two English papers represent the work of groups of specialist individuals and projects working in the field of archaeozoology during the Holocene. Subjects include: the movement and displacement of animals in the Mediterranean, animals at altitude in the southern Alps, extinctions on Sardinia, bovine populations in France, pastoral specialisation, fish populations in the Iron Age.

Two major issues feature in this collection of papers which derives from two conference symposia held at the XIVth UISPP congress in Liege in 2001: how to identify Upper Palaeolithic domestic structures from structural features and archaeological finds, and how to classify and compare usefully these domestic structures. These seventeen papers present raw data and provide interpretation on a range of Upper Palaeolithic sites from across Eurasia, including Spain and Portugal, France, Alpine regions, the Levant and Siberia. Papers in French and English.

A study of the symbolism and iconography of anthropomorphic coroplastic art from Neolithic Italy. A discussion of the history of research, and of the background to the subject as a whole, precedes a catalogue of examples. Although there is great variety in the forms and styles represented, Giannitrapani links certain examples to a system of divinities.

Some of the earliest human populations lived in Southern Africa, and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and on the emergence of modern humans. The sub-continent has one of the world's richest heritages of rock art, and specialists have developed innovative theories about its meaning and significance that have influenced the understanding of rock art everywhere. Passionate arguments about the hunter-gatherer way of life have centred on Southern African cases, and the relationship between archaeological and anthropological data is also central to understanding the past of Southern Africa's pastoralist and farmer communities. The pre-colonial states of the region provide some of the best documented cases of the influence of external trade on the development of African polities.