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Storage, sedentism and the Eurasian Palaeolithic record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Olga Soffer
Olga Soffer*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, 109 Davenport Hall, 607 South Mathews, Urbana IL 61801, USA
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Abstract

What is the connection between storage and sedentism in hunter-gatherer societies? What is the pattern of ethnography? What other patterns show themselves in Late Palaeolithic Eurasia, in those late hunter-gatherer adaptations that are precursors of Holocene food production? And is material storage a necessary and a sufficient condition for hunter-gatherer sedentism?

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 241 , December 1989, pp. 719 - 732
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