Aurignacian Lithic Economy Ecological Perspectives from Southwestern
Drawing data from a classic region for Paleolithic research in Europe, this book explores how early modern humans obtained lithic raw materials and analyzes the different utilization patterns for locally available materials compared with those from a grea
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INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHAEOLOGY Series Editor Michael A. Jochim, University of California at Santa Barbara Founding Editor: Roy S. Dickens, Jr., Late of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Current Volumes in This Series
THE ARCHAEOLOGIST’S LABORATORY The Analysis of Archaeological Data E. B. Banning AURIGNACIAN LITHIC ECONOMY Ecological Perspectives from Southwestern France Brooke S. Blades DARWINIAN ARCHAEOLOGIES Edited by Herbert Donald Graham Maschner EARLIEST ITALY An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic Margherita Mussi FAUNAL EXTINCTION IN AN ISLAND SOCIETY Pygmy Hippopotamus Hunters of Cyprus Alan H. Simmons and Associates A HUNTER–GATHERER LANDSCAPE Southwest Germany in the Late Peleolithic and Mesolithic Michael A. Jochim HUNTERS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST The Paleolithic of Moravia Jiri Svoboda, Vojen Lozek, and Emanuel Vlcek
MISSISSIPPIAN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION The Powers Phase in Southeastern Missouri Michael O’Brien MISSISSIPPIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY Jon Muller PROJECTILE TECHNOLOGY Edited by Heidi Knecht VILLAGERS OF THE MAROS A Portrait of an Early Bronze Age Society John M. O’Shea A Chronological Listing of Volumes in this series appears at the back of this volume. A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment For further information please contact the publisher.
Aurignacian Lithic Economy Ecological Perspectives from Southwestern France Brooke S. Blades Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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To Meg and Emma
Fore word
It is a great pleasure to introduce this excellent piece of scholarship devoted to the adaptation of the Aurignacian in southwestern France. On the one hand, it is an important study of what is arguably one of the most significant periods of human evolution, and on the other, it represents an important contribution in both method and theory to Upper Paleolithic studies. The Aurignacian has enjoyed a long history of attention in Paleolithic research. The eponymous site of Aurignac, a small cave located in the département of the Haute-Garonne in southwestem France, was excavated by the paleontologist Edouard Lartet (at the very beginnings of the discipline) in 1860. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the chronological placement of the Aurignacian as following the Mousterian was established by Henri Breuil. Later, in the 1930s, Denis Peyrony
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