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Upper Paleolithic Connubia, Refugia, and the Archaeological Record from Eastern Europe

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The Pleistocene Old World

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For various historical, linguistic, and political reasons our understanding of the Upper Paleolithic Old World (and especially of Europe) is predominantly based on data collected in western Europe. This chapter attempts to redress somewhat this West European bias by evaluating hypotheses proposed to explain late Pleistocene pan-European phenomenon with data gathered in central and eastern Europe.

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Soffer, O. (1987). Upper Paleolithic Connubia, Refugia, and the Archaeological Record from Eastern Europe. In: Soffer, O. (eds) The Pleistocene Old World. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1817-0_21

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