Conclusion: Domesticity re-expressed

This volume has incorporated ideas and analyses from numerous sources, at a variety of scales, which are both broadly viewed and narrowly focused. We have called upon researchers of demography and social organization on a global scale (Zubrow), ethnoarchaeologists of modern hunter-gatherers (Beyries and Rots, David, Karlin and D'iachenko, Keeley), those interested in Paleolithic hunters and gatherers (Soffer and Adovasio), specialists in the Magdalenian of western Europe (Cattin), of the Paris Basin (Bodu, Pigeot), and specific analyses of material from Verberie (Audouze, Averbouh, Dumarçay and Caron, Enloe, Janny, Keeler). The reflexivity of these perspectives involves bouncing back and forth between the present and the past, understanding the material correlates and their organizations for a variety of subsistence and technical activities that form a major portion of the kinds of remains that can be observed in the archaeological record. These have allowed us to understand better the significance of the specific studies of material from Verberie and their potential to expand a more general understanding of the organization of domesticity in the Magdalenian as well as in other hunter-gatherer societies.