Quantifying stone age mobility : scales and parameters / / edited by Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Aleksandr Diachenko, Andrzej Wiśniewski

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.80901
• Soggetto topico: Excavations (Archaeology)
• Persona (resp. second.): Sobkowiak-TabakaIwona; DiachenkoAleksandr; WiśniewskiAndrzej
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: Wide-Scale Mobility: Environmental Contexts and Cross-Cultural Trends -- Chapter 2: Deconstructing Neanderthals´ Mobility from an Environmental Perspective -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Climate and Environment in Europe During the Last Glacial -- 2.1.2 Neanderthals Mobility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- 2.1.3 Mobility and Technological Organization -- 2.2 Sites and Methods -- 2.3 Neanderthals in the Landscape -- 2.3.1 Central Europe -- 2.3.2 Cantabrian Region -- 2.3.3 Western Mediterranean -- 2.4 Neanderthals on the Move -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Reading the Mobility of Late Palaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers. Case Study from the Sowin Site Complex in Relation to L... -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Mobility North of the Carpathians and Sudetes -- 3.3 Methods -- 3.3.1 Diversity Index and Correspondence Analysis -- 3.3.2 Correspondence Analysis and Hierarchical Clustering -- 3.4 Material -- 3.4.1 Localisation -- 3.4.2 Dating -- 3.4.3 Lithic Raw Materials -- 3.4.4 Structure of Inventories -- 3.4.5 Diversity of Sowin Inventories in Relation to Evenness -- 3.4.6 Multivariate Analysis -- 3.5 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Obsidian Transportation Across the Tsugaru Strait in the Context of the Late Pleistocene -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Chronology -- 4.3 Re-excavations of Kakuniyama Site from 2017 to 2020 -- 4.4 Obsidian Source Analysis Using XRF -- 4.5 Interpreting the Analysis Results -- 4.6 Context in the Far East -- References -- Part II: Seasonal Mobility of Paleolithic and Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers: In a Search for Proxies -- Chapter 5: Approaching Late Paleolithic Seasonal Mobility on the North European Plain -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Mobility Patterns: Scales, Parameters, and Research Procedure. ; 5.3 Case Study: Federmesser Populations on the North European Plain -- 5.4 Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- Chapter 6: Seasonal Mobility in the Dutch Mesolithic, a View from Different Perspectives -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Dutch Mesolithic Archaeology -- 6.2.1 Overview of the Sites -- 6.3 Proxies for Seasonal Mobility -- 6.3.1 Botanical Remains -- 6.3.1.1 Roots and Tubers -- 6.3.1.2 Hazelnuts and Acorns -- 6.3.1.3 Fruits and Berries -- 6.3.1.4 Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) Seeds and Other Edible Seeds -- 6.3.2 Use-Wear Analysis -- 6.3.3 Landscape Dynamics -- 6.3.4 Dwelling Places -- 6.4 Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 7: Marking Mesolithic Mobility: The Curious Case of Pit Hearth Clusters in the Low Countries -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Settlement Systems and Mobility in the Dutch Mesolithic -- 7.2.1 Methodological and Conceptual Issues -- 7.3 Mesolithic Pit-Hearth Features -- 7.3.1 Pit Hearths Versus Flint Scatters -- 7.3.2 Sites with Pit Hearths and Pit-Cluster Sites -- 7.4 Configurations of Pit Hearths -- 7.4.1 Defining Pit-Hearth Configurations -- 7.4.2 Types of Configuration -- 7.4.3 Chronological Patterning -- 7.5 Discussion: Pit Hearths as Mobility Proxies? -- 7.5.1 Early Holocene Sea-Level Rise -- 7.5.2 Small Pit Clusters and the 9.3 ka cal BP Event -- 7.5.3 The Early Atlantic: Large Pit Clusters -- 7.6 Extensive Flint Scatters -- 7.7 Other Mobility Proxies -- 7.7.1 Caches -- 7.7.2 Dwellings and Other Fixed Facilities -- 7.7.3 Burials and Cremations -- 7.8 Conclusion and Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 8: Spatial Distribution of Mezhyrichian Objects (Eastern Epigravettian): A Model of Seasonal Mobility -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Location and History of Investigation -- 8.2.1 Mezhyrich -- 8.2.2 Semenivka Sites -- 8.3 Mezhyrich, the Fourth Dwelling -- 8.3.1 West Section -- 8.3.2 East Section -- 8.4 Semenivka Sites. ; 8.4.1 Semenivka I -- 8.4.2 Semenivka II -- 8.4.3 Semenivka III -- 8.5 Cultural Interpretation of the Assemblages -- 8.6 Discussion -- 8.7 Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Migration, Niche Construction, Utilitarian and Non-utilitarian Factors of Mobility -- Chapter 9: Moving on: Dispersal and Niche Construction -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Human Dispersal and Farming -- 9.2.1 The Demography and Biodiversity of Dispersal: Early Farming in the Balkans -- 9.2.2 Early Farming and Vegetation Cover Across Europe -- 9.3 Discussion -- 9.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Migrating to the Golden Door: Fleeing Adversity -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 History of Our Research -- 10.3 A Short Demographic History -- 10.4 Importance of Perception -- 10.4.1 Previous Theory Summary -- 10.4.2 Present Theory Extension -- 10.5 Methods and Implementation -- 10.6 Data Input -- 10.7 Results and Conclusions -- 10.8 Future Work -- References -- Chapter 11: SARP Revisited: Reconstructing Population Trends Through Large-Scale Analysis of Archaeological Settlement Data -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Problem of Extrapolation -- 11.3 Data and Model Operation -- 11.4 Results -- 11.5 Comparisons to the Radiocarbon and Pollen Records -- 11.6 Conclusion -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Quantifying Stone Age Mobility
• ISBN: 3-030-94368-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910574076303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling