A Hunter-gatherer Landscape : Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

Synthesizing classic "stones and bones" archeological data with his predictive model based on excavated site resources, Joachim (U. of California, Santa Barbara) cogently illuminates the evolution of human behavior from the Late to Middle Stone Ages. Evolutionary ecology, the study of social modifications paralleling changes in the natural landscape, also informs this application of his seminal 1976 model to eight subregions of this long-inhabited area of Europe. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.