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The Magdalenian Household: Unraveling Domesticity

by Ezra B. W. Zubrow , Françoise Audouze , James G. Enloe
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781438433660
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
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  • Pages: 345
  • Original Price: USD 36.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 635 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Archaeology

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.

Ezra Zubrow is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the editor of several books, including (with Colin Renfrew) The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Françoise Audouze is Senior Researcher Emerita at the National Center for Scientific Research in France and the coauthor (with Olivier Büchsenschütz) of Towns, Villages, and Countryside of Celtic Europe. James G. Enloe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa and the coauthor (with Jack L. Hofman) of Piecing Together the Past: Applications of Refitting Studies in Archaeology.

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