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La gestion de l’espace au paléolithique
Management of the space in Paleolithic

Author(s): Marcel Otte
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Editura Cetatea de Scaun
Keywords: space; Palaeolithic; fire places; society; dwelling

Summary/Abstract: The spatial organization developed by an ethnic group within its environment reflects the dual relationship that it held between itself as dwelling-place (inhabitation) and its place in nature (habitat). The range of potential solutions seems vast, but limited, since we find the same range of variability in the past comparable to what we can observe today across space. These adaptive modes, in response to internal and external constraints, appear to have been completely mastered from the earliest periods, as if they were proper to humanity as a whole; they reflect functional mechanisms.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 15-38
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: French