Anthropology without informants : collected works in paleoanthropology / / by L. G. Freeman.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Freeman, Leslie G.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xviii, 376 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Anthropology without informants -- A theoretical framework for interpreting archeological materials -- The fat of the land (partial) -- By their works you shall know them: cultural developments in the paleolithic -- Paleolithic polygons: voronoi tesserae and settlement hierarchies in cantabrian spain -- Torralba and ambrona: a review of discoveries -- Were there scavengers at torralba? -- Kaleidoscope or tarnished mirror? thirty years of mousterian investigations in cantabria -- The mousterian, present and future of a concept. (a personal view) -- Research on the middle paleolithic of the cantabrian region -- Meanders on the byways of paleolithic art -- The many faces of altamira -- Techniques of figure enhancement in paleolithic cave art -- The cave as paleolithic sanctuary -- Caves and art: rites of initiation and transcendence -- The participation of north americans and spaniards in joint prehistoric research in cantabria.