Review Article
Palaeolithic archaeology in a united Europe
Dimitra Papagianni
Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
E-mail:
D.Papagianni@soton.ac.uk Dear friends,
While scrolling through the the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO) website
CLICK HERE, itself a wonderful source of information eminating from the University of Southampton, England, I came across the following announcement:
"Dr. Dimitra Papagianni has joined CAHO as a British Academy postdoctoral fellow for three years starting in October 2000. Her review in December 2003's Antiquity was selected as the showcase review article to be posted on the web site - you can see it at
http://antiquity.ac.uk/reviews ."
Apparently, either I missed this review article earlier or, more likely, did not recognize its potential relevance to a good number of current threads in the Palanth forum. In particular, I'm referring to the paragraphs in the Papagianni review devoted to:
FRANÇOIS BON 2002
L'Aurignacien entre mer et océan: réflexion sur l'unité des phases anciennes de l'Aurignacien dans le sud de la France (Société préhistorique française Memoir 29).
[Paris] Société préhistorique française
a reference given in the article:
Tsanova, Tsenka et Jean-Guillaume Bordes. 2003.
Contribution au débat sur l'origine de l'Aurignacien: principaux resultants d'une etude technologique de l'industrie lithique de la couche 11 de Bacho Kiro. Ts. Tsonev and E. Montagnari Kokelj (eds.) The Humanized Mineral World: Towards social and symbolic evaluation of prehistoric technologies in South Eastern Europe
Proceedings of the ESF workshop, Sofia - 3-6 September 2003.
ERAUL 103, 2003, p. 41-50.
which Jacques brought to our attention during the discussion topic: "Skrdla on Boker Tachtit and Stránská skála", to be found on the PALANTH forum PREHISTORY board.
In addition, Papagianni discusses a number of other publications (cut-and-pasted below), as well as providing an "integration":
"Integration
The books reviewed here allude to a fundamental difference between western and eastern Europe in the nature of information available to the international research community: whereas for western Europe access to primary sources such as site reports and small-scale regional studies (e.g. the works by Miller, Bon, Pastoors) is easy, for eastern Europe the information comes in the form of either short site reports and specialised papers on on-going research (e.g. papers in Eriksen & Bratlund) or regional syntheses (e.g. Hoffecker) often written by non-local archaeologists. The effects of language barriers and physical access to the publications are much more pronounced for eastern Europe. But true integration into a European Palaeolithic archaeology will only be achieved when the multiplicity of approaches by researchers of various nationalities and epistemological backgrounds that we are accustomed to read for western Europe becomes available for eastern Europe as well. In this context, regional research traditions and their alternative perspectives will not be swamped by their western European counterparts, but will be more widely heard internationally and will become an active part in the multiplicity of approaches that constitutes European Palaeolithic archaeology."
The books reviewed by Papagianni are:
JOHN F. HOFFECKER 2002
Desolate landscapes: Ice-Age settlement in eastern Europe
New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press.
[I should receive my copy from Oxbow this week]
REBECCA MILLER 2001
Lithic resource management during the Belgian Early Upper Paleolithic: effects of variable raw material context on lithic economy. (Études et recherches archéologiques de l'Université de Liège no. 91).
Liège: Liège University
FRANÇOIS BON 2002
L'Aurignacien entre mer et océan: réflexion sur l'unité des phases anciennes de l'Aurignacien dans le sud de la France (Société préhistorique française Memoir 29).
[Paris] Société préhistorique française
ANDREAS PASTOORS 2001
Die mittelpalaolithische Freilandstation von Salzgitter-Lebenstedt: Genese der Fundstelle und Systematik der Steinarbeitung (Salzgitter-Forschungen Vol. 3)
Salzgitter: Archiv der Stadt Salzgitter
BERIT VALENTIN ERIKSEN & BODIL BRATLUND (ed.). 2002
Recent studies in the final Palaeolithic of the European plain: proceedings of a UISPP Symposium, Stockholm, 14-17 October 1999.
Høbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society
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This is a very well-written review, which should be of interest to a number of our Palanth readers. I recommend it without qualification. The entire review can be read online, at:
CLICK HERE FOR PAPAGIANNI REVIEWEnjoy,
Dar
