Anthropology without informants [Texte imprimé] : collected works in paleoanthropology / by L. G. Freeman ; [foreword by Francis B. Harrold]

Notes bibliogr.

Anthropology without informants -- A theoretical framework for interpreting archeological materials -- The fat of the land (partial) -- By their works you shall know them: cultural developments in the Paleolithic -- Paleolithic polygons: voronoi tesserae and settlement hierarchies in Cantabrian Spain -- Torralba and Ambrona: a review of discoveries -- Were there scavengers at Torralba? -- Kaleidoscope or tarnished mirror? thirty years of mousterian investigations in Cantabria -- The mousterian, present and future of a concept. (a personal view) -- Research on the middle Paleolithic of the Cantabrian region -- Meanders on the byways of paleolithic art -- The many faces of Altamira -- Techniques of figure enhancement in Paleolithic cave art -- The cave as Paleolithic sanctuary -- Caves and art: rites of initiation and transcendence -- The participation of North Americans and Spaniards in joint prehistoric research in Cantabria