Goals, constraints and challenges of palaeolithic archaeology

doi:10.16359/j.cnki.cn11-1963/q.2019.0034

Abstract

Abstract:

Palaeolithic research can address some of archaeology’s biggest questions, including the origins and spread of modern humans. As a result, research often attracts much public attention and imagination. It is clear, however, that the reconstruction of life in the Palaeolithic faces many problems, both practical in terms of the limitations of the data and interpretive in trying to make sense of the finds. Both experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology have proven useful in dealing with some of these problems, but they also emphasize some of the constraints archaeologists face.

Key words: Archaeology, Palaeolithic

CLC Number:

K871.11

Michael JOCHIM. Goals, constraints and challenges of palaeolithic archaeology[J]. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 2019, 38(03): 335-343.

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