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The zooarchaeological record from Late Paleolithic Southwest Europe provides a means to understand how hunter–gatherers interacted with the landscapes in which they lived. In this chapter, I define the basic concepts on which this volume rests—landscape, zooarchaeology, Late Paleolithic, Southwest Europe—and explain how a study of archaeofaunas from this time and place can help us better understand human–environment interactions.
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Jones, E.L. (2016). Paleolithic People, Paleolithic Landscapes. In: In Search of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in Paleolithic Southwest Europe. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22351-3_1
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