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1 online resource (159 pages) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Some aspects of bird life during the Palaeolithic of western Europe -- Table 1. Some examples of the records of Summer visitors to western Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic with reference to Tyreberg 1998 and Moreau 1972. -- Table 1. Continued. -- Table 2. Some pelagic species recovered from Palaeolithic occupation sites in western Europe. -- Table 2. Continued. |
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Table 3. Some of the freshwater waterfowl species recorded as wintering outside their recent range in western Europe on Palaeolithic sites. -- Table 3. Continued. -- Table 4. Plant species known to be taken by the Wildfowl species represented in the Mousterian deposits at Pontnewydd cave. A. platyrhyncos, Mallard is omnivorous and omitted from this list (after Cramp Vol. I. 1977) (Spr. Taken in Spring -- S. Takin in Su -- Table 4. Continued. |
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Table 5. Mollusca, Crustacea, invertebrates and fish known to be taken by Wildfowl species whose remains are recorded in the Mousterian deposits at Pontnewydd Cave (after Cramp Vol. I. 1977) (S. Taken in Summer -- W. Taken in Winter -- All Taken at all sea -- Table 5. Continued. -- Table 6, A range of plant foodstuffs taken by Tetraornidae at different times of year (Spr. Taken in Spring -- S. Takin in Summer -- A. Taken in Autumn -- W, Taken in Winter -- All. Taken at all seasons -- Occ. Taken occasionally). |
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Table 7. Some of the invertebrates taken seasonally by Tertraornidae (Spr. Taken in Spring -- S. Takin in Summer -- Occ. Taken occasionally -- Chicks. Fed to neonatal young). -- Table 8. The presence of Crossbills and Pine grosbeak on Palaeolithic sites in western, central and Mediterranean Europe (after Tyreberg 1998). -- Chapter 2 -- Birds of the Middle Palaeolithic in Britain and western Europe -- Table 1. Summary of the birds recorded at Eartham quarry 1 and 2 at Boxgrove Sussex, after Harrison and Stewart 1999, as compared with E and W Runton and Ostend, Norfolk, after Harrison. |
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Table 2. The Avifauna at Pontnewydd cave, Clwyd. -- Table 3. Mousterian avifaunas noted from excavations at Pinhole cave Derbyshire, Soldier's Hole Somerset and La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey. After Bramwell, Harrison and Callow and Cornford. -- Table 3. Continued. -- Table 4. Mousterian avifauna from excavations at Buhlen Upper cave. -- Table 5. A comparison between bird faunas from Mousterian levels La Baume de Gigny, Fontechevade, Combe Grenal and Pech de l'Aze. (After Berlioz 1959 and Mourer Chauviré 1975). -- Table 5. Continued. -- Table 5. Continued. |
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Table 6. Mousterian avifaunas from Herault, the Pyrenees, and Cantabria (after Mourer Chauviré Clot, Elorza and Eastham). |
| Summary |
This book considers the nature of the interaction between birds and hunter-gatherers in Western Europe. It examines aspects of avian behaviour and the qualities targeted at different periods by hunter-gatherers, who recognised the utility of the diversity of avian groups in various applications of daily life and thought. |
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| Subject |
Birds -- Europe, Western -- History -- To 1500.
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Birds. |
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Western Europe. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Man-woman relationships. |
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Man-woman relationships -- Europe, Western -- History -- To 1500.
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Paleolithic period -- Europe, Western.
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Paleolithic period. |
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Europe, Western -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Eastham, Anne Man and Bird in the Palaeolithic of Western Europe Oxford : Archaeopress,c2021 9781789699098 |
| ISBN |
9781789699104 (electronic book) |
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178969910X (electronic book) |
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1789699096 |
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9781789699098 |
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