This combination of workbook and CD-ROM (Win PC only) functions as a "virtual field school" that gives students the opportunity to carry out an excavation using real data. Based on excavations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Combe-Capelle in France, the exercises included in Virtual Dig ask students to access the CD's database to analyze and interpret findings.

Virtual Dig: A Simulated Archaeological Excavation of a Middle Paleolithic Site in France, with Student CD-ROM (Win-PC only)

Computers & Technology

Roth, Barbara

Dibble, Harold L.

McPherron, Shannon

Computer Science

McGraw–Hill Education

This book provides a summary of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Fontéchevade, France, between 1994 and 1998. The excavation team used modern field and analytic methods to address major problems raised by earlier excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier excavations produced two sets of data that have been problematic in light of data from other European Paleolithic sites: first, the Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Tayacian, that differs in fundamental ways from other contemporary industries and, second, the human skull fragment that has been interpreted as modern in nature but that apparently dates from the last interglacial, long before there is any evidence for humans from any other site in Europe. By applying modern stratigraphic, lithic, faunal, geological, geophysical, and radiometric analyses, the interdisciplinary team demonstrates that the Tayacian "industry" is a product of site formation processes and that the actual age of the Fontéchevade I fossil is compatible with other evidence for the arrival of modern humans in Europe.

The Cave of Fontéchevade: Recent Excavations and their Paleoanthropological Implications

History

Chase, Philip G.

Debénath, André

McPherron, Shannon P.

Ancient Civilizations

Cambridge University Press

This book provides a comprehensive, practical, and highly readable guide to making the most of computer technology in archaeological applications. Topics covered include database design, mapping and excavation with computer instrumentation, laboratory data entry, digital images, GIS, and electronic publication.

Using Computers In Archaeology: A Practical Guide

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

This book presents the major tool types of European Lower and Middle Paleolithic. Building on the typelist of the late Francois Bordes, with many forms that have been recognized since, it presents working definitions of the types with illustrations and discussions of the variability inherent to lithic typologies. The authors combine classic typological views with current notions of lithic typological variation.
This handbook represents not only an important reference source for gaining a practical understanding of how Lower and Middle Paleolithic typology is applied but of the nature of lithic variability in other kinds of assemblages as well.

Handbook of Paleolithic Typology: Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

This report presents the new excavations at Combe-Capelle Bas, a Middle Paleolithic site in southern France. The site is situated directly on a source of good quality flint, and recent theories suggest that such a setting may have certain predictable effects on the lithic industries. These effects, and others relating to current models of raw material procurement and use, are discussed.
This book will appeal to anyone interested in Paleolithic archaeology, lithic analysis, raw material use, and site formation and taphonomy.
University Museum Monograph, 91

The Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas (France)

Lenoir, Michel

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Quartz an Introduction to Crystalline Quartz: Decoding the Messages from Inside the Earth

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Dibble Trust Fund Ltd

This book breaks new ground in several ways. The internal structures of quartz crystals are covered as well as its external forms. It explains the latest concepts so that they may be understood by novices and be of interest to professional mineralogists. It describes many forms of quartz crystals that have not been covered in previous books. The CD which is included, is an educational tool beyond anything that has been used before. It clearly illustrates the internal atomic arrangements and growth mechanisms in a manner that the two-dimensional pages of a book cannot. The specimens used in the book were not selected merely for their beauty, but for their unique qualities. This internationally acclaimed book is enjoyable, entertaining and educational.

Quartz, an Introduction to Crystalline Quartz: Decoding the Messages from Inside the Earth

Presents the proceedings of the May 1993 conference on Levallois technology held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, focusing on a stone flaking technique that existed during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. Topics include refitting of prehistoric artifacts; metric techniques developed to reconstruct processes of core reduction; variability in the Levallois process; and the role of technological analysis in reconstructing the processes that underlie morphological variability. Includes b&amp;w photos and illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Definition and Interpretation of Levallois Technology (Monographs in World Archaeology)

Bar-Yosef, Ofer

World

Prehistory Pr

This humorous account of human evolution, from the beginnings of bipedalism through the Upper Paleolithic, is set in the context of a cookbook, with recipes and cartoons to match the unfolding stories. Each chapter discusses a particular milestone or event in human development, and a dash of prehistory, a sprinkling of recipes, and a generous helping of humor painlessly lighten the professorial instruction.
From leading us to understand the first tool makers to showing us how to prepare a Neanderthal dinner party at the site of the authors' most recent excavations in Pech de l'Aze in France's Dordogne Valley near the town of Sarlat, this book presents archaeology as never before.

The Human Evolution Cookbook

Williamson, Dan

Evans, Brad M.

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