Regional Approaches to Adaptation in Late Pleistocene Western Europe

Edited By Gail Larsen Peterkin And Heather A. Price. The Present Volume ... Was Inspired By A Pair Of Symposia Held At Two Successive Annual Meetings Of The Society For American Archaeology. The First, 'situational Adaptationin The Late Pleistocene Of Western Europe,' Was Held At The 60th Annual Meeting In Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 3-7, 1995. The Success ... Resulted In Another Symposium 'regional-scale Variation In Late Pleistocene Western Europe,' At The 61st Annual Meeting In New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10-14, 1996--p. Vii. Includes Bibliographical References. Front Cover Copyright Table of Contents List of Contributors Editors' Preface 1. Regional Approaches to Adaptation in Late Pleistocene Western Europe 2. The Magdalenian of Grotte XVI (Dordogne, France) and Regional Approaches to Magdalenian Settlement and Economy 3. The Relevance of Regional Analysis for Upper Paleolithic Archaeology: A Case Study from Portugal 4. Intra-Regional Similarities in Resource Exploitation Strategies: The Late Magdalenian in the Vezere Valley 5. Late Upper Paleolithic Environments, Subsistence, and Zoogeography in Cantabrian Spain 6. Variability and Context of Magdalenian Visual Imagery, Western Languedoc-Roussillon, France 7. Les groupes humains au Tardiglaciaire dans le Bassin parisien: diverses voies pour une approche regionale 8. Settling Down or Moving Around? The Development of Regional Traditions during the European Magdalenian 9. Readaptation: Changes in Magdalenian Subsistence and Social Organization 10. Specialized Final Magdalenian Hunting Technology in Southwest France 11. Regional-Scale Variation and the Magdalenian Record of Northwestern Europe 12. Patterns of Ethnogeographic Variability in Late Pleistocene Northwestern Europe 13. Final Palaeolithic in the Northwest: Migrations and Seasons 14. The Eastern Magdalenian: Hunters, Landscapes, and Caves 15. Coming Out from the Cold: Western Europe in Dryas I and Beyond 16. Intraregional Variability in the Mesolithic of Atlantic Coastal Iberia 17. Regions and Late Pleistocene Hunter—Gatherers