The World at 18 000 BP

Low Latitudes
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-23497-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: Low Latitudes (second of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago. Following an introduction (common to the two volumes) on the diversity of human adaptations at the last glacial maximum, Volume 1 covers high latitudes: Europe, Asia and the New World. Volume 2 covers low latitudes: Africa, the Middle East, southern Asia and Australasia.

The volumes contain contributions from leading specialists on regional records. Each discusses the pertinent environmental settings, archaeological data, and cultural adaptations. This sampler of the way we were 18,000 years ago affords Pleistocene specialists a multidisciplinary conspectus revealing the diversity of past cultural practices as well as the innate universality of human nature. By stressing both the diversity and the similarity in human cultural practices, the authors contribute invaluable data for both theoretical constructs and a sounds empirical basis for global culture history. The global nature of the work also reveals the covert biases hitherto present in reconstructions of the past and perceptions of past cultural change.

This is a fully international and thoroughly interdisciplinary treatment of a key topic for the wide range of disciplines concerned with human prehistory and Quaternary environmental reconstruction.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamble, Clive

Soffer, Olga

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents of Volume 1: high latitudes Introduction: Pleistocene polyphone: the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum 1. The distribution of human settlement in the extra-tropical Old World: 24000 – 15000 BP North Africa and the Middle East 2. North Africa at 18,000 BP 3. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Mediterranean Levant  4. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Jordanian Desert 5. Kebaran occupation at the Last Glacial Maximum in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley Sub-Saharan Africa 6. The Glacial Maximum in tropical Africa: 22 000–12 000 BP 7. Changes in the archaeological record in South Africa at 18000 BP 8. A palaeoecological model for archaeological site distribution in southern Africa during the Upper Pleniglacial and Late Glacial 9. Zimbabwe at 18000 BP 10. A view from the south: southern Africa before, during, and after the Last Glacial Maximum Southern Asia, Sunda and Australia 11. South Asian climate and environment at c. 18000 BP 12. Hunter–gatherers of the terminal Pleistocene in Uttar Pradesh, India 13. From Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene in Sundaland 14. From Kakadu to Kutikina: the southern continent at 18000 years ago 15. Environmental history in southwestern New South Wales during the Late Pleistocene Afterword: Minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18K and otherwise

Über Autor(innen)

Clive Gamble is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton, UK. Gamble’s main research interests are the archaeology of human origins, the social life of the earliest humans and the timing of their global colonisation.

Olga Soffer is Professor Emerita at the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her primary areas of research interest combine anthropology, archaeology, and palaeontology.