Perspectives on the Past: Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Figures and Tables xv
• Preface xvii
• Chapter 1 - Introduction 3
• Part I: Paradigmatic Biases in the Earlier Phases of Circummediterranean Archaeological Research 23
• Chapter 2 - An Examination of Some Models of Late Pleistocene Society in Southwestern Europe 25
• Chapter 3 - Paradigm Found? A Research Agenda for Study of the Upper and Post­ Paleolithic in Southwest Europe 56
• Chapter 4 - A Paradigm Is LIke An Onion: Reflections on My Biases 79
• Chapter 5 - Straight Archaeology French Style: the Phylogenetic Paradigm in Historic Perspective 109
• Part II: Paradigms for the Franco-Iberian Paleolithic and Mesolithic 141
• Chapter 6 - Retouched Tools, Fact Or Fiction? Paradigms for Interpreting Paleolithic Chipped Stone 143
• Chapter 7 - The Elephant and the Blind Men: Paradigms, Data Gaps, and the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Southwestern France 164
• Chapter 8 - Issues in Biological and Behavioral Evolution and the Problem of Upper Pleistocene Subsistence 183
• Chapter 9 - A Great Thick Cloud of Dust: Naming and Dating in the Interpretation of Behavior in the Late Paleolithic of Spain 194
• Chapter 10 - From Hunter-Gatherers to Food Producers in Northern Spain: Smooth Adaptive Shifts Or Revolutionary Change in the Mesolithic 204
• Chapter 11 - Paradigmatic Differences in A Collaborative Research Project 217
• Part III: Paradigms for the Paleomesolithic of Italy and Cyprus 227
• Chapter 12 - The Community Ecology Perspective and the Redemption of "Contaminated" Faunal Records 229
• Chapter 13 - New Problems, Old Glasses: Methodological Implications of An Evolutionary Paradigm for the Study of Paleolithic Technologies 243
• Chapter 14 - Normal Science and Paradigmatic Biases in Italian Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory 258
• Chapter 15 - One Flew Over the Hippo's Nest: Extinct Pleistocene Fauna, Early Man, and Conservative Archaeology in Cyprus 282
• Part IV: Paradigms for Levantine Epipaleolithic Research 305
• Chapter 16 - Paradigms and Politics in the Terminal Pleistocene Archaeology of the Levant 307
• Chapter 17 - Social Complexity in the Natufian? Assessing the Relationship of Ideas and Data 322
• Chapter 18 - Historic Biases in Modern Perceptions of the Levantine Epipaleolithic 341
• 19 - Foraging, Sedentism, and Adaptive VIgor in the Natufian: Rethinking the LInkages 353
• 20 - Stone Tools and Social Context in Levantine Prehistory 371
• Chapter 21 - Comparative Aspects of Paradigms for the Neolithic Transition in the Levant and the American Southwest 396
• Chapter 22 - Epilogue: Paradigms, Realism, Adaptation, and Evolution 411
• Site Index 521
• Subject Index 523
• Author Index 530
• Contributors 537

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