The Upper Paleolithic of the central Russian Plain
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The Upper Paleolithic of the central Russian Plain
(Studies in archaeology)
Academic Press, c1985
- : alk. paper
- : pbk
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 495-526
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments1 Introduction Objectives and Significance Past Research in the Study Area History of Paleolithic Archaeology in the USSR Methodology and Assumptions 2 Upper Paleolithic Sites on the Central Russian Plain Geography and Geomorphology of the Study Area Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Chronology Profiles of the Sites Raw Data Tables 3 The Environmental Given The Study Area Today General Features of the Late Valdai The Bryansk Interstadial: 27,000-24,000 B.P. Environment between 24,000 and 20,000 B.P. The Valdai Maximum: 20,000-18,000 B.P. Climate after the Glacial Maximum: 18,000-12,000 B.P. The Structure of the Landscape in the Late Valdai 4 Chronology and Land Use Relative Dating of the Sites Chronometrie Dating of the Sites Proposed Chronological Ordering of the Sites Upper Paleolithic Land Use: The Location of the Sites Conclusions 5 Subsistence Practices and Duration of Occupation in the Late Valdai Methodology Subsistence and Floral Resources Storage Strategies Subsistence and Faunal Resources Seasonality of Occupation Modeling Changes in Subsistence Practices 6 Site Types and the Settlement System Settlement Systems: Present and Past Data from the Central Russian Plain Classificatory Methodology Types of Sites on the Central Russian Plain Population and Duration of Occupation Settlement System Analysis 7 Sociopolitical Integration Introduction Assumptions and Methodology Social Networks Sociopolitical Relationships and Organization Ritual Behavior Summary and Conclusions8 Conclusions and Implications Introduction Data and Models Problems of Temporal and Spatial Scale The Central Russian Plain Microcosm and the European Upper Paleolithic World The Data and Our Theoretical Constructs References Index
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