Ancient Hunters and Their Modern Representatives

Name: Ancient Hunters and Their Modern Representatives
Author: W. J. Sollas

W. J. Sollas

Argues that successive Palaeolithic industries in Europe can be understood by comparison with living hunter-gatherer societies, treating ethnography as a working analogy for the deep past.

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Where it is now wrong

Its organising idea, that living hunter-gatherer peoples are surviving specimens of prehistoric stages, is a racial-evolutionary schema archaeology abandoned long ago. Read as a document of how the discipline once thought, not as an account of the Palaeolithic.

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