Regional Approaches to Adaptation in Late Pleistocene Western Europe
Edited by Gail Larsen Peterkin and Heather A. Price
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Description
This volume brings together examples of research carried out at a variety of spatial and temporal scales of analysis, all focused on Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in Europe. The contributors represent a wide range of theoretical perspectives. The various theoretical and methodological attempts recounted thus represent different approaches to the understanding of a single, well-studied macro-region during a crucial transitional period. The economic intensification exhibited by some of the hunter-gatherers of Late Pleistocene Europe laid the groundwork for the subsequent development of agriculture and the increasing cultural complexity that accompanied this revolution in human prehistory. Thus, the papers contained in this volume have broader implications and applications for a more accurate understanding of the role played by the concept of the region in anthropological and archaeological theory, as well as for a more accurate understanding of the people who inhabited them in the prehistoric past.
