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1 online resource (541 pages) |
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Cover; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction by the editors; 'A mind set on flint'; Part I -- The Lower & Middle Palaeolithic; Wie „modern" war das kulturelle Verhalten von Heidelbergern und Neandertalern? (with English summary); Some reflections on fire usage in the Middle Palaeolithic; Some workpieces by Middle Palaeolithic apprentice flintknappers from the Netherlands; Fellow travellers on the 'great trek'? -- Some thoughts on British MIS 3 Neanderthals and spotted hyaenas; Neanderthal finds in Schleswig Holstein? -- Middle Palaeolithic flintscatters in Northern Germany |
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Hälleflinta -- 'Next best' or even better than flint?Late Middle Palaeolithic artefacts and archaeo-stratigraphical dating of the bone gravels (Knochenkiese) in Central Westphalia and the Ruhrgebiet(Germany); Palaeolithic radiocarbon and the retouchoirs from Mauern (Germany); Trace formation, strike-a-lights, and the contribution of functional analyses for understanding Palaeolithic contexts; Part II -- The Late Upper Palaeolithic; Identifying dwellings in Upper Palaeolithic open-air sites -- The Magdalenian site at Monruz (Switzerland) and its contribution to analysing palimpsests |
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Revisiting 'intentional breakage' in the British Late Upper PalaeolithicA presumed 'Creswellian' site in the Leudal near Neer (province of Limburg), the Netherlands; The cores from the Creswellian site at Zeijen (province of Drenthe), the Netherlands; The 'Eastern extension' -- New data on the Hamburgian in Poland; A new Hamburgian site near Stroe (province of Gelderland), the Netherlands; A lot of good points -- Havelte points in the context of Late Glacial tanged points in Northwestern Europe |
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Milheeze -- A very large Federmesser site on the northern edge of the Peelpe at bog (Southern Netherlands) and its environmental and social contextTwo sites to every story -- LateUpper Palaeolithic site variability in Denmark; The Pope, a miracle and an Ahrensburgian windbreak in the municipality of Waalre (province of Noord-Brabant), the Netherlands; The 'big sieve' -- Some notes on the discovery of the Mesolithic and Late Upper Palaeolithic in the Netherlands; Part III -- The Mesolithic & Neolithic; The underestimated fish? -- Early Mesolithic human remains from Northern Germany |
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Dance and suspense -- Reassessing Dutch Mesolithic anthropomorphic engravingsSpade paddling on a Mesolithic lake -- Remarks on Preboreal and Boreal sites from Duvensee (Northern Germany); Camping and foraging in Boreal hazel woodland -- The environmental impact of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers near Groningen, the Netherlands; Dværgebakke I -- A Danish Mesolithic site with activity areas for children?; Reflections on the Mesolithic burial pits at Mariënberg (province of Overijssel), the Netherlands |
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Struck by an infectious light -- Neolithic strike-a-lights in Swifterbant (province of Flevoland), the Netherlands? |
| Summary |
Annotation This volume comprises papers presented to Dick Stapert on the occasion of his retirement from the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (University of Groningen) in 2011 and celebrates his scientific career. The contributions cover nearly 300,000 years of Human History and were written by colleagues, former students and friends. Topics include the making and use of fire, children in the Stone Age, spatial analysis, and other themes related to the study of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and beyond. This is the second edition and a hardcover book. The first edition, a softcover volume with ISBN 9789491431012, is out of print |
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Print version record |
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Stone age -- Europe, Northern
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Stone implements -- Europe, Northern
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Stone age
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Stone implements
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Europe, Northern -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00009808
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Northern Europe
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Barton, N. (Nicholas)
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Terberger, Thomas
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Street, Martin
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9789492444509 |
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949244450X |
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9789491431135 |
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9491431137 |
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