Straus examines the Stone Age prehistory of Cantabrian Spain and provides readers with an interpretation of his findings. This book is intended for English-speaking students of paleoanthropology and all others interested in Stone Age prehistory. It was written with two fundamental, related goals in mind: 1)to produce a syntheses of our current understanding of the course of hominid adaptations throughout the Stone Age in a particularly well-defined and well studied region of southwestern Europe; and 2) to provide a counterweight to the preponderant French (particularly Perigord) bias in the presentation, in the United States and Britain, of the Paleolithic record. -- From the introduction

Iberia Before the Iberians: The Stone Age Prehistory of Cantabrian Spain

History

Straus, Lawrence Guy

Europe

Univ of New Mexico Pr

<p>The Stone Age prehistory of northern Spain is one of the richest and most significant in the world, extending at least 100,000 years into the past. With adjacent regions in France, this mountainous region has one of the most complete records in Europe for hominid occupation, including spectacular cave art sanctuaries like Altamira and El Castillo.</p>
<p>Iberia before the Iberians is the first book since 1924 (in any language) to present a complete synthesis of Cantabrian prehistory. Written from an ecological and functional perspective, the book traces the evolution of human responses to widely varying physical and demographic environments. It provides up-to-date information on sites, chronology, art, and artifacts, from the Lower Paleolithic through the Neolithic, along with standardized tables and site maps for each period.</p>

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