Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Figures and Tables XV
4. Preface XVII
5. 1. Introduction 3
6. Part I: Paradigmatic Biases in the Earlier Phases of Clrcum-Mediterranean Archaeological Research
7. 2. An Examination of Some Models of Late Pleistocene Society in Southwestern Europe 25
8. 3. Paradigm Found? A Research Agenda for Study of the Upper and Post- Paleolithic in Southwest Europe 56
9. 4. A Paradigm is Like an Onion: Reflections on my Biases 79
10. 5. Straight Archaeology French Style: The Phylogenetic Paradigm in Historic Perspective 109
11. Part II: Paradigms for the Franco-Iberian Paleolithic and Mesolithic
12. 6. Retouched Tools, Fact or Fiction? Paradigms for Interpreting Paleolithic Chipped Stone 143
13. 7. The Elephant and the Blind Men: Paradigms, Data Gaps, and the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Southwestern France 164
14. 8. Issues in Biological and Behavioral Evolution and the Problem of Upper Pleistocene Subsistence 183
15. 9. A Great Thick Cloud of Dust: Naming and Dating in the Interpretation of Behavior in the Late Paleolithic of Spain 194
16. 10. From Hunter-Gatherers to Food Producers in Northern Spain: Smooth Adaptive Shifts or Revolutionary Change in the Mesolithic 204
17. 11. Paradigmatic Differences in a Collaborative Research Project 217
18. Part III: Paradigms for the Paleomesollthlc of Italy and Cyprus
19. 12. The Community Ecology Perspective and the Redemption of "Contaminated" Faunal Records 229
20. 13. New Problems, Old Glasses: Methodological Implications of an Evolutionary Paradigm for the Study of Paleolithic Technologies 243
21. 14. Normal Science and Paradigmatic Biases in Italian Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory 258
22. 15. One Flew Over the Hippo's Nest: Extinct Pleistocene Fauna, Early Man, and Conservative Archaeology in Cyprus 282
23. Part IV: Paradigms for Levantine Epipaleolithic Research
24. 16. Paradigms and Politics in the Terminal Pleistocene Archaeology of the Levant 307
25. 17. Social Complexity in the Natufian? Assessing the Relationship of Ideas and Data 322
26. 18. Historic Biases in Modern Perceptions of the Levantine Epipaleolithic 341
27. 19. Foraging, Sedentism, and Adaptive Vigor in the Natufian: Rethinking the Linkages 353
28. 20. Stone Tools and Social Context in Levantine Prehistory 371
29. 21. Comparative Aspects of Paradigms for the Neolithic Transition in the Levant and the American Southwest 396
30. 22. Epilogue: Paradigms, Realism, Adaptation, and Evolution 411
31. Bibliography 441
32. Site Index 521
33. Subject Index 523
34. Author Index 530
35. Contributors 537
36. Backmatter 539