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The Human Use of Caves

Clive Bonsall and Christopher Tolan-Smith
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Proceedings of a conference covering many aspects of human use of caves: from Palaeolithic carvings in France to present-day man-made cave dwellings in Baranja, Croatia.
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Convenient Cavities: Some Human Uses of Caves and Rockshelters
  • Cave Versus Open-Air Settlement in the European Upper Palaeolithic
  • The Human Use of Caves in the Belgian Palaeolithic
  • Cave as Context in Palaeolithic Art
  • Dancing in the Dark: Probing the Phenomenon of Pleistocene Cave Art
  • Settlement Patterns, Cave Sites, and Locational Decisions in Late Pleistocene Central Europe
  • Human Use of Caves in the Postglacial: Archaeological Evidence from the Framconia Alb, Southern Germany
  • The Weidental Cave: Changing Use in Changing Times
  • Changes in the Use of Caves in Cantabrian Spain During the Stone Age
  • Back Home! Neolithic Life and the Rituals od Death the the Portuguese Ribatejo
  • The Human Use of Caves in East-Central Italy During the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Copper Age
  • Symbolism of Space in Guanche Culture Cave Sites of the Canary Islands
  • Cult Caves of Latvia
  • Artifical Caves Used as Human Dwellings and Out-Houses in the Baranja Region of Croatia
  • Working in the Dark? Caves as Workshops in Roman Britain
  • Archaeology and the Ethnohistory of Cave Dwelling in Scotland
  • The Human Use of Caves and Rockshelters in the Mountain Crimea (Ukraine) in Prehistoric, Classical, and Medieval Times
  • Human Use of the Northern Urals Caves from the Late Pleistocene to Modern Times: An Arachaeozoological Perspective
  • Human Use of Caves in the Caucasus
  • Palaeolithic Cave Sites in Gubs Canyon, Northern Caucasus
  • The Natufian Use of el-Wad Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
  • Nahal Qanah Cave: A Unique Chalcolithic Burial Site in West Samaria
  • Changes in the Significance of a Site: The Klasies Cave Complex in the Middle and Later Stone Ages
  • Secrecy and Creativity: The Use of Rockshelters by the Nyau Secret Society, Malawi
  • Australian Aboriginal Use of Caves
  • Precolumbian Cave Utilization in the Maya Area
  • Rockshelters and Ritual Activities in the Atacama Desert of Northen Chile
  • The Human Use of Caves
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Published: 1997
Publisher: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9780860548591 (paperback)
  • 9781407349770 (ebook)
BAR Number: S667
Subject
  • Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
  • Central and South America and the Caribbean
  • Western Europe and Britain
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Ritual / Religion / Temples
  • British Isles
  • Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
  • Mesopotamia
  • Rock-Art / Semiotics
  • Multiperiod
  • Mediterranean
  • Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
  • Africa
  • Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
  • Levant / Near East
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