The Middle Paleolithic Site of Pech de l'Azé IV

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dibble, Harold L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McPherron, Shannon J. P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Goldberg, Paul (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sandgathe, Dennis M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cave and Karst Systems of the World,
• Subjects: Archaeology.; Environmental geography.; Anthropology.; Environmental Geography.

This book provides comprehensive information on the materials excavated at Pech de l'Azé IV, both by the original excavator François Bordes in the 1970s, and more recently by the authors and their scientific team. Applying a range of new excavation and analytical techniques, it presents detai...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction.- Stratigraphy, Deposits and Site Formation
• An Absolute Chronological Framework for Pech IV.- Taphonomical and Zooarchaeological Analysis of Bordes' Excavated Material from Levels I2 and Y-Z.- Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Assemblage from the 2000-2003 Excavations
• The Lithic Assemblages
• Summary and Conclusions.