Lithic Raw Material Economies in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International)

Lithic analyses of all kinds have a long history in archaeological studies. For many years, morphological studies of tool-types and elaborate discussions of relative chronologies were a primary focus, but this has changed and the past few decades have witnessed a steadily growing interest in many other aspects of lithic studies. The 12 papers in the present volume provide a variety of perspectives on lithic exploitation patterns in late glacial and early postglacial Western Europe (from Poland to Portugal). The book grew from a symposium held at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in Anaheim in 1994, and the editors hope that the volume will stimulate more inter-regional discussions of data and ideas, as well as general interpretive problems regarding lithic raw material economy in late glacial and early postglacial. 1.pdf Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Preface 1. Lithic Raw Material Economy in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Western Europe: Introduction 2. Flint Raw Material Economy During the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial in the Oder-Daugava-Prypet Basin 3. Mobility and Lithic Economy at the Buttental Site: A Case Study 4. Fossil Mollusks and Exotic Raw Materials in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Find Contexts: A Complement to Lithic Studies 5. Retooling and Raw Material Economies: Technological Change in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Southern Germany 6. Climate and Raw Material Behavior: A Case Study From Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers in the Middle Rhine Area of Germany 7. Lithic Raw Material Utilization in the Final Paleolithic and Mesolithic of Belgium 8. Etiolles: A Blade Production Site? 9. Lithic Raw Material Economy in the Late Glacial of the Paris Basin: Case Studies from Magdalenian, Federmesser and Long Blade Technology Hunter-Gatherers 10. Tardiglacial Lithic Raw Material Utilization in Vasco-Cantabria (Spain) and Gascony (France) 11. Residential Mobility and Lithic Economizing Behavior: Explaining Technological Change in the Portuguese Upper Paleolithic 12. Lithic Raw Material Economy and Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial in Portuguese Prehistory Lithic assemblages have always been an important source of information, sometimes the only source, on human activities in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe. These twelve papers, some of which were given at the 59th Annual SAA meeting in Arnheim in 1994 (here revised) present comparative lithic material from across Europe. With case studies from Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal, the contributors look at the procurement of lithic raw materials, mobility patterns, territorial organisation, inter-group communication and exploitation of natural resources.