Thursday, November 28, 2024

Human Societies Facing Climate Change: Volume 3: Determinisms in Prehistoric Societies: Climate Changes, Environments, Functional Constraints and Cultural Tradition

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This volume contains the papers given at a symposium organized by the International Academy of Prehistory and Protohistory (AIPP) at the Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris, on June 3, 2023.

The chosen theme “Determinisms in prehistoric societies: climate change, environments, functional constraints and cultural traditions” is part of the project “Human societies in the face of climate change” supported by the International Academic Union (UAI).

H 245 x W 174 mm

306 pages

153 figures, 5 tables (colour throughout)

Published Nov 2024

Archaeopress Archaeology

ISBN

Paperback: 9781803278919

Digital: 9781803278926

DOI 10.32028/9781803278919

Contents

Foreword

Avant-propos

Quantification of morphological variability expressed by a “log sem” statistic in the context of human evolution (Australopithecus, Paranthropus and early Homo) – Francis Thackeray

L’importance du déterminisme climatique dans l’évolution de l’Humanité – François Djindjian

Cultural evolution as the emperor’s new clothes – Martin Oliva

Le Mézinien : un exemple d’adaptation climatique et culturelle aux steppes froides d’Europe orientale: état actuel des recherches, des discussions et des interprétations – Lioudmila Iakovleva

The evidence for fishing in the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Northwestern Poland – Jacek Kabaciński

The turn to sedentary life at the edge of Southeast and Central Europe – Eszter Bánffy

Cultural changes consequential to the formation of Neolithic way of living: The Upper Euphrates – Upper Tigris Basin – Mehmet Özdoğan

The Rajajil Cultures. Socio-economic and cultural evolution interacting with climate oscillations in Northwestern Arabia (5th – early 4th millennium BCE) – Hans Georg K. Gebel

Leceia, Moita da Ladra and Outeiro Redondo: Similarities and differences between three walled sites of Portuguese Extremadura – João Luís Cardoso

The large stones of the Neolithic Age. Menhirs and stelae – Svend Hansen

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