The British Palaeolithic : Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World

ISBN-13: 9780415674546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 616 str.

Paul Pettitt; Mark White

Opis

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age.

Spis treści

1. One Million Years of the British Pleistocene  2. Pioneers at the Edge of the Pleistocene World: The Earliest Hominin Visitors to Britain, ~1ma – 700 ka BP  3. Landscapes of Habit: The hominin occupation of Britain 550-300 ka BP  4. Behaviour and Society in Lower Palaeolithic Britain, ~ 550 ka -300 ka BP  5. Neanderthals of the Forest Steppe: The Early Middle Palaeolithic ~325 to 180 ka BP  6. The Neanderthal Steppe: Landscapes and Human Environments of the Late Middle Palaeolithic  7. Liminal Worlds: the British Early Upper Palaeolithic and the earliest populations of Homo sapiens  8. Settling the northwest frontier: The Late Upper Palaeolithic, ~ 14.6 – 11.6 ka BP

O autorze

Dr Paul Pettitt is Reader in Palaeolithic Archaeology at Sheffield University, and specializes in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Britain. He is the author of The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial (Routledge, 2010).

Dr Mark White is Reader in Archaeology at Durham University and specializes in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Britain.