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Overview
This superb survey of hunter-gatherer societies in Southwest Germany presents an overview of the archaeological record for three periods- the Late Paleolithic, the Early Mesolithic, and the Late Mesolithic. Michael A. Jochim employs his rigorously materialist orientation to suggest certain possibilities about the general organization of settlements, subsistence, and social relations of the cultures in question. He also discusses the data within the context of human events in western Europe during the same periods. The text is accompanied by 115 illustrations
Synopsis
This superb survey of hunter-gatherer societies in Southwest Germany presents an overview of the archaeological record for three periods- the Late Paleolithic, the Early Mesolithic, and the Late Mesolithic. Michael A. Jochim employs his rigorously materialist orientation to suggest certain possibilities about the general organization of settlements, subsistence, and social relations of the cultures in question. He also discusses the data within the context of human events in western Europe during the same periods. The text is accompanied by 115 illustrations
Booknews
Synthesizing classic "stones and bones" archeological data with his predictive model based on excavated site resources, Joachim (U. of California, Santa Barbara) cogently illuminates the evolution of human behavior from the Late to Middle Stone Ages. Evolutionary ecology, the study of social modifications paralleling changes in the natural landscape, also informs this application of his seminal 1976 model to eight subregions of this long-inhabited area of Europe. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.