The Obsidian Evidence For The Scale Of Social Life During The Palaeolithic (Bar International)

I argue that the scale of obsidian movement, although conditioned by a number of climatic, ecological and anatomical constraints, is actually rooted in social grounds. I thereby reject theories that see behavioural modernity as a recent advance in human history and argue for modern behaviour as gradual process that was initiated in East Africa at least as early as the Middle Stone Age

• • Author: Theodora Moutsiou
• • Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
• • Publication Date: Mar 15, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 170 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1407312448
• • ISBN-13: 9781407312446