Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology: Definition and Interpretation

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This edited book aims to provide a new perspective on the identification and interpretation of short-term occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology. The volume includes contributions with a particular focus on the definition and identification of short-term occupations in Paleolithic contexts, aiming to improve our current knowledge on the topic, both methodologically and interpretatively. The set of chapters coming from a broad spectrum of geographies and chronologies will contribute to the debate on the definition of short-term occupations but also to a better understanding on how past hunter-gatherers communities adapted and moved in different environmental contexts across time. The in-depth examinations of short-term occupations in different chronologies and environments will shed light on an aspect of the behavioral trajectories of the human species in the management of the territory. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction to Short-Term Occupations in Palaeolithic Archaeology (Andrea Picin, João Cascalheira)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Use of Lithic Assemblages for the Definition of Short-Term Occupations in Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory (Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira)....Pages 19-38 Inside the Palimpsest: Identifying Short Occupations in the 497D Level of Cova Gran (Iberia) (Rafael Mora Torcal, Miquel Roy Sunyer, Jorge Martínez-Moreno, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Sofia Samper Carro)....Pages 39-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Short-Term Occupations During the Early Middle Paleolithic in Eastern Germany (Andrea Picin)....Pages 73-103 Models of Raw Material Exploitation as an Indicator of Middle Paleolithic Mobility: Case Studies from Uplands of Northern Central Europe (Paweł Valde-Nowak, Magda Cieśla)....Pages 105-120 Take Shelter! Short-Term Occupations of the Late Paleolithic and the Mesolithic in the French Far West (Nicolas Naudinot, Grégor Marchand)....Pages 121-146 Front Matter ....Pages 147-147 Occupying Cave-Sites: A Case Study from Azokh 1 Cave (Southern Caucasus) (Lena Asryan, Andreu Ollé, Norah Moloney, Tania King)....Pages 149-181 Short-Term Neanderthal Occupations and Carnivores in the Northeast of Iberian Peninsula (Andrea Picin, Ruth Blasco, Maite Arilla, Florent Rivals, M. Gema Chacón, Bruno Gómez de Soler et al.)....Pages 183-213 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 A Snapshot of a Short Occupation in the Abric Romaní Rock Shelter: Archaeo-Level Oa (Amèlia Bargalló, Maria Joana Gabucio, Bruno Gómez de Soler, M. Gema Chacón, Manuel Vaquero)....Pages 217-235 A High Temporal Resolution Zooarchaeological Approach to Neanderthal Subsistence Strategies on the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula: El Salt Stratigraphic Unit Xa (Alicante, Spain) (Leopoldo Pérez, Jorge Machado, Alfred Sanchis, Cristo M. Hernández, Carolina Mallol, Bertila Galván)....Pages 237-289 Back Matter ....Pages 291-296