Perspectives on the Past : : Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research / / Geoffrey A. Clark.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Clark, Geoffrey A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1991]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (540 p.) :; 20 illus.

Perspectives on the Past shows how knowledge of the past is contingent and is largely determined by the social and intellectual milieu in which those who study it have received their training. In the original essays that comprise the volume, field archaeologists discuss their own biases and the effects these biases have on how they do their research on hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An Examination of Some Models of Late Pleistocene Society in Southwestern Europe -- 3. Paradigm Found? A Research Agenda for Study of the Upper and Post- Paleolithic in Southwest Europe -- 4. A Paradigm is Like an Onion: Reflections on my Biases -- 5. Straight Archaeology French Style: The Phylogenetic Paradigm in Historic Perspective -- 6. Retouched Tools, Fact or Fiction? Paradigms for Interpreting Paleolithic Chipped Stone -- 7. The Elephant and the Blind Men: Paradigms, Data Gaps, and the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Southwestern France -- 8. Issues in Biological and Behavioral Evolution and the Problem of Upper Pleistocene Subsistence -- 9. A Great Thick Cloud of Dust: Naming and Dating in the Interpretation of Behavior in the Late Paleolithic of Spain -- 10. From Hunter-Gatherers to Food Producers in Northern Spain: Smooth Adaptive Shifts or Revolutionary Change in the Mesolithic -- 11. Paradigmatic Differences in a Collaborative Research Project -- 12. The Community Ecology Perspective and the Redemption of "Contaminated" Faunal Records -- 13. New Problems, Old Glasses: Methodological Implications of an Evolutionary Paradigm for the Study of Paleolithic Technologies -- 14. Normal Science and Paradigmatic Biases in Italian Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory -- 15. One Flew Over the Hippo's Nest: Extinct Pleistocene Fauna, Early Man, and Conservative Archaeology in Cyprus -- 16. Paradigms and Politics in the Terminal Pleistocene Archaeology of the Levant -- 17. Social Complexity in the Natufian? Assessing the Relationship of Ideas and Data -- 18. Historic Biases in Modern Perceptions of the Levantine Epipaleolithic -- 19. Foraging, Sedentism, and Adaptive Vigor in the Natufian: Rethinking the Linkages -- 20. Stone Tools and Social Context in Levantine Prehistory -- 21. Comparative Aspects of Paradigms for the Neolithic Transition in the Levant and the American Southwest -- 22. Epilogue: Paradigms, Realism, Adaptation, and Evolution -- Bibliography -- Site Index -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Contributors -- Backmatter