The interpretation of prehistory
Subtitle: essays from the pages of the Quarterly Review of Archaeology
Series: The Review of archaeology -- v. 10, no. 1
Publisher: Review of Archaeology
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Salem, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Archaeology; Anthropology; Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology)
Other titles: Quarterly review of archaeology.
Notes: At head of title: Peabody Museum of Salem.

Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Grande Pile the great / P.A. Colinvaux; title: Prehistoric subsistence / R.I. Ford; title: Woolly arguments against the Mammoth Steppe: a new look at the palynological data / R.D. Guthrie; title: Methods of faunal analysis: early hominids / S.J. Olsen; title: Primate and human evolution / G.P. Rightmire; title: The fossil man hall of fame / C.G. Turner; title: Stratigraphic classification: living within the law / W.R. Farrand; title: Stratigraphic practice / W.R. Farrand; title: The restoration of time: radiocarbon dating, 1965-1985-6 / F.A. Hassan; title: From bulldozers to boats / J.P. Brain; title: The museum and academic orthodoxy / W.A. Fairservis; title: On the origins and meanings of "art" / M.E. King; title: Chiefdoms, states and scales of analysis / P. Tolstoy; title: Cultural evolution in the late Pleistocene and Holocene / J.R.F. Bower; title: Advancing the study of early man in East Africa / D.A. Roe.; title: (continued) Introducing Far Eastern archaeology of the 1980s / K.C. Chang; title: Life in the half shell / J.P. White; title: The image of woman in prehistoric art / M. Gimbutas; title: New data on the middle Pleistocene of France / A.J. Jelinek; title: Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Balkans / A. Montet-White; title: Willow tales and dog smoke / T.D. Price; title: Archaeology of Jarmo / R.L. Solecki; title: An archaeologist's autobiography / R.S. Solecki; title: American Neandertalers / H.G. Bandi; title: The Chacoan regional system / J.S. Dean; title: The Meadowcroft papers / D.F. Dincauze; title: Rock art studies on the Columbia River / R. Sprague; title: The FAI-270 Project: rewriting the prehistory of the American bottom / J.B. Stoltman; title: Migrationism and New World origins / F.H. West.; title: (continued) Lewis and Clark and Middle Missouri archaeology / W.R. Wood; title: The Maya road-show / N. Hammond; title: Under the rainbow? Aesthetic, economic, and politic elements in our perception of the Maya / D.H. Kelley; title: A new synthesis of Colombian archaeology / W. Bray; title: Large monuments and precocious formative development / M.E. Moseley.