The palaeolithic settlement of Europe
By: Clive Gamble.
Series: Cambridge world archaeology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
Subjects: Paleolithic period -- Europe; Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Europe; Archaeology -- Methodology; Europe -- Antiquities
Description: "In this book Clive Gamble challenges the established view that the social life of Europeans over the 500,000 years of the European Palaeolithic must remain a mystery. In the past forty years archaeologists have recovered a wealth of information from sites throughout the continent. Professor Gamble now introduces a new approach to this material. He interrogates the archaeological evidence from stone tools, hunting and campsites for information on the scale of social interaction, and the forms of social life. Taking a pan-European view of the archaeological evidence, he reconstructs ancient human societies, and introduces new perspectives on the unique social experience of human beings."--Jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 411-459.
Includes indexes.