Personal Review

Benefit of foresight

ref: 2002/3_4 (6)

Society, religion, art, and a conjunction of other things

David Lewis-Williams
University of the Witwatersrand



Department Review

An overview of teaching and research in Tübingen

ref: 2002/3_4 (7)

Abteilung Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie
Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters
Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology
Eberhard Karls Universität, Schloss Hohentübingen, D-72070 Tübingen, Germany
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/afa/index.html




Michael Bolus and Nicholas J Conard
Abteilung Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Book Review

The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel. I:
The Wood Assemblage

ref: 2002/3_4 (8)

Naama Goren-Inbar, Ella Werker & Craig S Feibel
ISBN 184217 072 4
Oxbow Books, Oxford 2002
xvi prelims, 120 pages, 85 illustrations, 21 tables
UK £25, US $45


Alan J Clapham
Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, Durham, UK.


Book Review

Ups and Downs of Danish Mesolithic Research?

ref: 2002/3_4 (9)

Danmarks Jægerstenalder – status og perspektiver. Beretning fra symposiet “Status og perspektiver inden for dansk mesolitikum” afholdt i Vordingborg, September 1998

(Status and perspectives within the Danish Mesolithic. Proceedings of a symposium held in Vordingborg on 16–17 September 1998)

Editors: Ole Lass Jensen, Søren A Sørensen & Keld Møller Hansen
ISBN 87-87371-32-4
Hørsholm Egns Museum, Denmark, www.hoersholmmuseum.dk 2001
Hardback, 200 Dkr plus p&p
212 pages, 110 illustrations [with English abstracts]

Lars Larsson
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
University of Lund, Sandgatan 1, SE-223 50 LUND, Sweden


Book Review

The Mind in the Cave:
Consciousness and the Origins of Art

ref: 2002/3_4 (10)


David Lewis Williams
ISBN 0500 051178
Thames & Hudson. London 2002
320 pages, 94 illustrations 27 in colour
Hardback UK £18.95, US $29.95


Jean Clottes
11, rue du Fourcat, 09000 FOIX, France


Book Review

What Place for Hunter-Gatherers in Millennium Three?

ref: 2002/3_4 (11)


Editors: Thomas N. Headland and Doris E Blood
ISBN 1-55671-132-8
Publications in Ethnography 39, SIL International and International Museum of Cultures, Dallas, Texas http://www.sil.org 2002
US $19.00
Paperback, 105 pages


Thomas Gibson
Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA


 

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