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- The Magdalenian Household: Unraveling Domesticity
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series
summary
A comprehensive investigation of household life during the Upper Paleolithic era. What was home and family like in Paleolithic Europe? How did mobile hunter-gatherer families live, work, and play together in the fourteenth millennium BP? What were the functional and spatial constraints and markers of their domesticity—the processes that create and sustain a household?
Despite the long recognized absence of comprehensive archaeological data on such ancient homes and hearths, the archaeologists in this volume begin unraveling the domesticity of the Upper Paleolithic by drawing on both an immense trove of new material evidence and comparative site data, and a range of incisive and illuminating ethnographic analogies, theoretical models, and simulations. Five Late Magdalenian sites from the Paris Basin and one later Azilian site provide striking evidence of well preserved camps of short duration, situated on valley bottoms and buried by gentle floods. Of particular interest and value is the site of Verberie, rich in lithic tools, faunal remains, hearts, and other indicators of spatial organization, which has been excavated continuously for twenty-six years by the same director and provides an unparalleled source of information on Paleolithic domesticity. The first group of essays and reports look at the technology and demographic evidences of domesticity; the second set seeks clues to the spatial patterning of Paleolithic households; while the final essays draw on ethnographic analogies to reconstruct and interpret gendered divisions of labor, perishable technologies, and other activities not directly recognizable from archaeological remains.
Table of Contents
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- Prefacing the Household
- pp. ix-x
- Part I: Technology and Demography
- Chapter Four: Technologie Lithique
- pp. 51-75
- Part II: Social Organization
- Part III: From Today to Yesterday: Ethnographic Comparisons
- Chapter Eighteen: M
- pp. 269-282
- Conclusion: Domesticity Re-expressed
- pp. 283-297
- English-French Index
- pp. 298-335
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438433684
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
762913027
Pages
345
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No