The Pleistocene Old World Regional Perspectives

Regional approaches to past human adaptations have generated much new knowledge and understanding. Researchers working on problems of adaptations in the Holocene, from those of simple hunter-gatherers to those of complex sociopolitical entities like the s

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The· Pleistocene Old World .Regional Perspectives

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHAEOLOGY Series Editor: Michael Joehim,

University of California, Santa Barbara

Foundinl Editor: Roy S. Oickens, Jr., Late of University of North Carolina, Chapei Hill Editorial Board:

Lewis R. Binford, University of New Mexico Jane E. Buikstra, University of Chicago Charles M. Budson,. University of Georgia Stephen A. K.owalewski, University of GeorgÜl William L. Rathje, University of Arizona Stanley South, University of South Carolina Bruce Winterhalder, University of North Carolina, Chapei Hiti Richard A. Yarnell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

THE PLEISTOCENE OLD WORLD

Regional Perspectives Edited by Olga Soffer

The Pleistocene Old World Regional Perspectives Edited by

OLGA SOFFER University of lllinois Urbana, IlIinois

Plenum Press. New York and London

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The Pleistocene old world. (Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology) IncIudes bibliographies and index. 1. Paleolithic period - Congresses. 2. Man, Prehistoric - Congresses. I. Soffer, Olga. II. Series. 930.1'4 87·12329 GN771.P48 1987 TSBN-I3: 978-1-4612-9016-2 e-TSBN-13: 978-1-4613-1817-0 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4613-1817-0

© 1987 Plenum Press, New York Softeover reprint of the hardeover I st edition 1987 ADivision of Plenum Publishing Corporation 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 AlI rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any. form or by any means, electronic, mechankal, photocopying, microfiIming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher

INMEMORIAM

Academician Innokentii Petrovich Gerasimov a paleogeographer who was a pioneer and strong champion of multidisciplinary research in Pleistocene archaeology

Con tribu tors Franfoise Audouze • Laboratoire D'Ethnologie Prehistorique, Centre National de la Reeherehe Scientifique, Universite de Paris I, Paris 750l4, France

Dfer Bar-Yosef • Institute of Arehaeology, Hebrew University-Mount Seopus, ]erusalem 91905, Israel

Lewis R. Binford • Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

Harvey M. Bricker • Department of Anthropology and Center for Arehaeology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118

James A. Brown • Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201

Brian Chisholm • Arehaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada

Geoffrey A. Clark • Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 Margaret W. Conkey • Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 13901

Nicholas David • Department of Arehaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1NH, Canada

Richard S. Davis • Department of Aruhropology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010

Harold L. Dibble • Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania