The impact of abrupt environmental transitions on human dispersals and adaptation
The impact of abrupt environmental transitions on human dispersals and adaptation
This paper sets out new methodologies for analysing the effects of Abrupt Environmental Transitions (AETs) on cultural change in the late Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. Archaeologists need to conceive the Palaeolithic record as a series of dynamic and often asynchronous social processes, rather than as a succession of essentialist epochs, before they can evaluate the effects (causal, or neutrally contemporaneous?) of evidence of AETs found in archaeological deposits and elsewhere. New scales of analysis, from modifications in tool-forms, to substitution of artefact types by others, to replacement of one culture with another, need to be explored before dispersals of groups across the landscape, and social and economic responses to AETs, can be assessed.
essentialism, Abrupt Environmental Transitions, Tephrochronology, hominin dispersal, Neanderthals, modern humans, cultural change, asynchronicity
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Davies, William
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Gamble, Clive S.
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Housley, Rupert A.
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Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine
7 December 2021
Davies, William
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Gamble, Clive S.
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Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine
Davies, William, Gamble, Clive S. and Housley, Rupert A.
(2021)
The impact of abrupt environmental transitions on human dispersals and adaptation.
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This paper sets out new methodologies for analysing the effects of Abrupt Environmental Transitions (AETs) on cultural change in the late Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. Archaeologists need to conceive the Palaeolithic record as a series of dynamic and often asynchronous social processes, rather than as a succession of essentialist epochs, before they can evaluate the effects (causal, or neutrally contemporaneous?) of evidence of AETs found in archaeological deposits and elsewhere. New scales of analysis, from modifications in tool-forms, to substitution of artefact types by others, to replacement of one culture with another, need to be explored before dispersals of groups across the landscape, and social and economic responses to AETs, can be assessed.
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Submitted date: 3 November 2020
Accepted/In Press date: 2 June 2021
Published date: 7 December 2021
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essentialism, Abrupt Environmental Transitions, Tephrochronology, hominin dispersal, Neanderthals, modern humans, cultural change, asynchronicity
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