Everyday life in the Ice age : a new study of our ancestors / / Elle Clifford and Paul Bahn |
Autore | Clifford Elle |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Prehistoric peoples
Prehistoric peoples - Europe |
Soggetto non controllato |
Archaeology
Physical Anthropology Social Science |
ISBN | 1-80327-259-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Don Johanson -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHRONOLOGY -- Chapter 1 Introducing the People: Appearance, Abilities and Disabilities -- The Lapedo child -- La Marche -- Female figurines -- Cap Blanc -- Tracks and traces -- The division of labour - did women hunt? -- Genders - rigid or fluid? -- Feeding the ice age family -- Dietary requirements -- Sunghir -- Fitness and violence -- Cro-Magnon -- Vitamin D -- The Romito dwarf -- Teeth, mouth and gum infections -- Diseases and infections -- The Arcy parasite -- Waste matter and sanitation -- Immunity and treatments -- Burials -- The Dolní Vestonice trio -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Setting the Scene: Ice Age Environments and Home Comforts -- The changing climate -- Flora and fauna -- Who would live in a place like this? -- Use of deep caves -- Cave comforts -- Carry on camping -- Building with mammoths -- Fire -- Have you got a light? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Our Crafty Ancestors -- Toolmaking -- The flint stones -- Mastic -- Feats of clay -- Using hard bits of animals -- Woodwork -- Innovations with fibres and plants -- Animal skins and clothing -- Containers: cache and carry! -- Carrying Children -- Head coverings -- The La Madeleine burial: the child of an elite family? -- Best foot forward -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 How to Make a Living: Survival and Subsistence -- Hunting -vs - gathering -- The ivory boomerang -- Solutré -- Hunting for clues to hunting -- Horses -- Animal control -- Reining in the reindeer -- Red deer -- The ibex -- The mammoth -- Carnivores and small game -- Embarking on a relationship with dogs -- How and why were wolves domesticated? -- Plucky bird hunters -- Fishing on a small scale -- Atlantic salmon runs -- Plant foods -- A camp of fisher-hunter-gatherers -- Modern gatherers.
Ice age food processors -- The original boil-in-a-bag meal -- Palaeolithic recipes -- Eggs with mushrooms -- Chapter 5 Ice Age People:From Womb to Tomb -- Reproduction -- From here to maternity -- The obstetric dilemma -- The Abri Pataud -- The Ostuni burial of a woman and her infant -- The child burials at the Grotte des Enfants -- The perinatal skeleton from Wilczyce, Poland -- Identical twins at Krems-Wachtberg, Austria -- Home delivery service -- After birth -- Sharing the caring -- Postmenopausal women and the grandmother hypothesis -- Family size and birth intervals -- First foods for ice age infants -- Methods of carrying and transporting infants -- Weaning -- Who's your daddy? Paternity and avoiding incest -- Who stays and who goes? -- Is there any evidence of infanticide? -- Growing up -- Cavorting in caves: thrills but no spills -- Female figurines -- An enduring myth: the 'Lion Man' -- Kids in caves - making a good impression -- Death in the ice age - good grief! -- The young Italian Prince -- Chapter 6 Keeping in Touch:Communication, Social Life and Organization -- Getting together -- Ice age bling -- Language -- Therianthropes -- Thanks for the memory -- Telling the time -- Drama in caves -- Having a laugh? -- Musical moments -- Images on the rocks -- What evidence is there for religion? -- JFK -- The 'Rites of Springs' -- Conclusion -- Case Study El Mirón and Covalanas -- The Red Lady -- The secret sanctuary -- Appendix The Fake 'Venus' of Abri Pataud -- References -- Figure credits -- Index -- Back cover. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795989303321 |
Clifford Elle
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Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , [2022] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Everyday life in the Ice age : a new study of our ancestors / / Elle Clifford and Paul Bahn |
Autore | Clifford Elle |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Prehistoric peoples
Prehistoric peoples - Europe |
Soggetto non controllato |
Archaeology
Physical Anthropology Social Science |
ISBN | 1-80327-259-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Don Johanson -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHRONOLOGY -- Chapter 1 Introducing the People: Appearance, Abilities and Disabilities -- The Lapedo child -- La Marche -- Female figurines -- Cap Blanc -- Tracks and traces -- The division of labour - did women hunt? -- Genders - rigid or fluid? -- Feeding the ice age family -- Dietary requirements -- Sunghir -- Fitness and violence -- Cro-Magnon -- Vitamin D -- The Romito dwarf -- Teeth, mouth and gum infections -- Diseases and infections -- The Arcy parasite -- Waste matter and sanitation -- Immunity and treatments -- Burials -- The Dolní Vestonice trio -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Setting the Scene: Ice Age Environments and Home Comforts -- The changing climate -- Flora and fauna -- Who would live in a place like this? -- Use of deep caves -- Cave comforts -- Carry on camping -- Building with mammoths -- Fire -- Have you got a light? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Our Crafty Ancestors -- Toolmaking -- The flint stones -- Mastic -- Feats of clay -- Using hard bits of animals -- Woodwork -- Innovations with fibres and plants -- Animal skins and clothing -- Containers: cache and carry! -- Carrying Children -- Head coverings -- The La Madeleine burial: the child of an elite family? -- Best foot forward -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 How to Make a Living: Survival and Subsistence -- Hunting -vs - gathering -- The ivory boomerang -- Solutré -- Hunting for clues to hunting -- Horses -- Animal control -- Reining in the reindeer -- Red deer -- The ibex -- The mammoth -- Carnivores and small game -- Embarking on a relationship with dogs -- How and why were wolves domesticated? -- Plucky bird hunters -- Fishing on a small scale -- Atlantic salmon runs -- Plant foods -- A camp of fisher-hunter-gatherers -- Modern gatherers.
Ice age food processors -- The original boil-in-a-bag meal -- Palaeolithic recipes -- Eggs with mushrooms -- Chapter 5 Ice Age People:From Womb to Tomb -- Reproduction -- From here to maternity -- The obstetric dilemma -- The Abri Pataud -- The Ostuni burial of a woman and her infant -- The child burials at the Grotte des Enfants -- The perinatal skeleton from Wilczyce, Poland -- Identical twins at Krems-Wachtberg, Austria -- Home delivery service -- After birth -- Sharing the caring -- Postmenopausal women and the grandmother hypothesis -- Family size and birth intervals -- First foods for ice age infants -- Methods of carrying and transporting infants -- Weaning -- Who's your daddy? Paternity and avoiding incest -- Who stays and who goes? -- Is there any evidence of infanticide? -- Growing up -- Cavorting in caves: thrills but no spills -- Female figurines -- An enduring myth: the 'Lion Man' -- Kids in caves - making a good impression -- Death in the ice age - good grief! -- The young Italian Prince -- Chapter 6 Keeping in Touch:Communication, Social Life and Organization -- Getting together -- Ice age bling -- Language -- Therianthropes -- Thanks for the memory -- Telling the time -- Drama in caves -- Having a laugh? -- Musical moments -- Images on the rocks -- What evidence is there for religion? -- JFK -- The 'Rites of Springs' -- Conclusion -- Case Study El Mirón and Covalanas -- The Red Lady -- The secret sanctuary -- Appendix The Fake 'Venus' of Abri Pataud -- References -- Figure credits -- Index -- Back cover. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821274003321 |
Clifford Elle
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Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , [2022] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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