标题:il’ev, S. A., O. Soffer, and J. K. Kozlowski (eds.) - Perceived Landscapes and Built Environments: The Cultural Geography of Late Paleolithic Eurasia.
摘要:This volume offers a Late Paleolithic view of the Eurasian landscape through the study of human-built habitats. Based on papers presented at two symposia of the XIV Congress of the U.I.S.P.P. held at the University of Liège in Belgium on 2–8 September, 2001, the volume consists of 17 relatively short chapters alternately in English and French. This review offers my perspective on the volume, not as an archaeologist, but as cultural anthropologist-geographer with a long-term fascination with the manner in which humans construct landscapes that communicate people’s behaviors in material form. The authors of the contributions are researchers whose experience in Paleolithic interpretation for the most part extends over more than 20 or 30 years, often on the same subject and at times on the same site. Thus, the authors bring to their shovels, towels, and grids an ever-deepening appreciation of Paleolithic efforts to bequeath a human presence on this planet