The Nature of Difference: History and Lithic Use-wear at Two Upper Palaeolithic Sites in Central Europe (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International, 880)

Tomaskova, Silvia

ISBN 10: 1841710814 / ISBN 13: 9781841710815

Published by Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, 2000

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v, 159 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. The starting point of this investigation was the striking absence in the archaeological literature of any detailed comparison between two significant Central European sites, despite their proximity in both geographical and temporal (roughly 30,000 to 25,000 years before the present) terms. This silence was even more startling considering the fame that these two localities have enjoyed over the century since they were excavated - Willendorf II primarily in 1908, Dolni Vestonice starting in 1924 and continuing into the present. A sensitively written treatment, taking the author back across many borders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Nature of Difference: History and Lithic Use-wear at Two Upper Palaeolithic Sites in Central Europe (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International, 880)
• Publisher: Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841710814
• ISBN 13: 9781841710815
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology

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Synopsis

This study, based on the author's thesis, studies and compares the lithic assemblages of two Upper Palaeolithic sites in Central Europe: Dolní Vestonice and Willendorf. More especially it discusses the means by which these assemblages have been classified and the issues and problems surrounding the use of typologies. Silvia Tomásková argues that applying standardised labels to the prehistoric material fails to adequately describe it and that often these labels are used, not just to organise the material, but to interpret it as well. A history of the two sites and their investigation preceeds a discussion of the material itself and a comparison of types of behaviour from the lithic assemblages.

About the Author

Silvia Tomásková