An Inquiry into the Ethnic Resolution of Mesolithic Regional Groups: The Study of Their Decorative Ornaments in Time and Space

An Inquiry into the Ethnic Resolution of Mesolithic Regional Groups: The Study of Their Decorative Ornaments in Time and Space

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Recent Western European Mesolithic research has greatly augmented our understanding of the time and space parameters of material derived from settlements. Perusals of those regularities have led to a renewed scrutiny of the ethnographic literature in an attempt to perceive the resulting temporal and spatial units as anthropologically relevant regional groups. The proposition that the breeding population was identical to the ethnic identity of the participants is untenable. After a review of the physical anthropological composition of that population and its forms of social and spatial organization, the emic relevance of decorative ornamentation and costume is established in terms of society-specific styles. Proceeding from a series of tenets of processual ethnographic analogy, the ornaments extant in the post- glacial hunter-fisher-gatherer cultures of Western Europe are examined for their formal properties and time and space parameters. By means of an explicit set of postulates they are tested for the identification, definition and territorial placement of mesolithic social, ethnic and linguistic groups.

An Inquiry into the Ethnic Resolution of Mesolithic Regional Groups: The Study of Their Decorative Ornaments in Time and Space,Raymond R. Newell,D. Kielman,T. Constandse-Westermann,A. Van Gijn,W. A. B. Van Der Sanden,A. Van Gijn,Brill Academic Publishers,9004090975,Ancient - General,Architecture,Decoration and ornament, Prehi,Decoration and ornament, Prehistoric,Ethnoarchaeology,Europe,History - Ancient & Classical,Interior Design - General,Mesolithic period,Prehistoric Archaeology,Prehistoric peoples,Sociology

Book Contents:

1. An Introduction to Aramaic (Resources for Biblical Study, No. 46)
2. A Study of the Vernacular Poetry of Ahmad Fu'Ad Nigm (Studies in Arabic Literature, Vol 12)
3. Australians at Home : A Documentary History of Australian Domestic Interiors from 1788 to 1914
4. Bauhaus Weimar
5. Begriffe, Satze, Dinge: Referenz Und Wahrheit Bei Wilhelm Von Ockham (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
6. Bible and Quran: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality (Symposium Series (Society of Biblical Literature), No. 24.)
7. Bibliography of the Communist International (1919-1979)
8. Bildatlas Zum Sport Im Alten Agypten: Corpus Der Bildlichen Quellen Zu Leibesubungen, Spiel, Jagd, Tanz Und Verwandten Themen - Text (Ancient Near East)
9. Casualty and Containment in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction (Toung Pao Monographie 15)
10. Centres of Learning: Learning and Location in Pre-Modern Europe and the Near East (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

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