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Environment, Culture and Subsistence of Humans in the Caucasus between 40,000 and 10,000 Years Ago

This book is the first complete synthesis of research undertaken so far on the Upper Palaeolithic archaeology of the Caucasus. It discusses the cultural changes that took place across Upper Palaeolithic industries and in the subsistence strategies of modern humans across the entire duration of this period, from approximately 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, in the context of the environmental changes that affected the population in this region. The book views the Upper Palaeolithic of the Caucasus in comparison to various other cultural entities from this period that are known in the extensive surrounding cultural landscape of Western Eurasia.


Liubov V. Golovanova is the Deputy Director and Lead Researcher at ANO Laboratory of Prehistory in St Petersburg, Russia, and Director of the North Caucasian Palaeolithic Expedition. She is a leading expert on the prehistoric archaeology of the Caucasus, and has directed excavations in well-known Palaeolithic sites in the region, including Mezmaiskaya and Matuzka caves. She has authored and co-authored approximately 250 articles and three books on the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Caucasus.

Vladimir B. Doronichev is the Director and Lead Researcher at ANO Laboratory of Prehistory in St Petersburg, Russia, and Co-Director of the North Caucasian Palaeolithic Expedition. He is a leading expert on the prehistoric archaeology of the Caucasus, and has directed excavations in Treugolnaya cave and participated in research in Mezmaiskaya and Matuzka caves. He has authored and co-authored approximately 150 journal articles and two books on the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Caucasus.

“This volume is a very complete, comprehensive and updated summary of the archaeology of the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods in one of the most interesting and difficult regions of south-east Europe. The results achieved by the two authors have been made possible mainly thanks to a systematic research project carried out during the last twenty years that was sponsored and funded by the L:S:B Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Thanks to it, new cave sites have been excavated and good series of AMS radiocarbon dates have been obtained, which now constitute the backbone of the Late Palaeolithic archaeology of the entire Caucasus. The present volume has been subdivided into chapters, the first of which regards the history of research in the study area. It clearly shows how our knowledge has greatly improved thanks to the introduction of modern excavation techniques, flotation, correct interpretation of archaeological sequences, and techno-typological and provenance study of knapped stone assemblages. […] Chapter Four is especially important because it examines the probable relationships and parallels with other Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic cultural aspects that developed in other regions of Eurasia. […] The two Appendixes A and B are also important because they are catalogues of the Upper Palaeolithic sites in the Northern (A) and in the Southern Caucasus (B) accompanied by plans and profiles of all the most important cave and rock-shelter sites. The last forty pages of the volume consist of a very complete bibliography of the Upper Palaeolithic period not exclusively in the Caucasus. The volume is the most complete and systematic work at present available on the topic. It is well-conceived and nicely illustrated with good line drawings and pictures. It is an irreplaceable work for any scholar who is interested in the Late Pleistocene archaeology of Europe and the Levant. Moreover, the price is affordable, and the quality and format of publication good.”
Paolo Biagi
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

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ISBN: 1-5275-4250-5

ISBN13: 978-1-5275-4250-1

Release Date: 19th December 2019

Pages: 587

Price: £70.99

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