Ref ID:	25229
Ref Type:	Book Section in a Series
Authors:	Price, T. Douglas
Title:	Issues in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research
Date:	1993
Source:	Hunting and Animal Exploitation in the Later Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Eurasia
Publisher:	American Anthropological Association
Abstract:	The papers in this volume offer a set of detailed, analytical studies examining the relationship between humans and animals between bones, weapons, and people and between technology and subsistence in the Upper Pleistocene and early Holocene. I have been asked to consider these studies and to comment on some of the major issues and themes. Why do we want to know about hunting technologies? What are the broader implications of such detailed technological and subsistence information? Is there an underlying approach or paradigm that unites the essays? What kinds of questions drive such research? Below, I review the contributions of some of the papers in this volume in light of these questions. I have grouped my comments on the papers under the specialized topics of weapons technology, hunting tactics, faunal analysis, and miscellaneous. I conclude with some remarks on more general issues in the archaeology of hunter-gatherers.
Identifier:	0-913167-61-4
Date Created:	7/23/2019
Editors:	Peterkin, Gail Larsen Bricker, Harvey M Mellars, Paul
Number:	4
Page Start:	241-244
Series Editor:	Clark, G. A.
Series Title:	Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association