Contributor List .............................................. vii
Figure List .................................................... xi
Table List ................................................... xvii
Foreword ...................................................... xix
1. The Transition from Australopithecus to Homo ................ 1
Daniel E. Lieberman, David R. Pilbeam, and
Richard W. Wrangham
2. Historical Perspectives on Long-Term Landscape Evolution
in the Hula Basin .......................................... 23
Craig S. Feibel, Naama Goren-Inbar, and Mitia Frumin
3. The Wisdom of the Aged and Out of Africa I ................. 33
Martha Tappen
4. The Paradox of Diet and Technology in the Middle
Paleolithic ................................................ 55
Steven L. Kuhn
5. Bridging the Gap: Explaining the Middle-Upper
Paleolithic Transition in the Levant ....................... 75
John J. Shea
6. The Antiquity of Large-Game Hunting in the Mediterranean
Paleolithic: Evidence from Mortality Patterns ............. 103
Mary C. Stiner
7. Reevaluating Connections between the Early Upper
Paleolithic of Northeast Africa and the Levant:
Technological Differences between the Dabban and
the Emiran ................................................ 125
Radu P.Ioviţă
8. Cultural, Behavioral, and Biological Discontinuities at
the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in the Southern
Caucasus .................................................. 143
Daniel S. Adler
9. The Importance of Process and Historical Event in the
Study of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition .......... 165
Gilbert B. Tostevin
10. The Dynamics of Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Settlement Patterns and Human Adaptations in the
Levant: An Overview ....................................... 185
Nigel Goring-Morris, Erella Hovers, and
Anna Belfer-Cohen
11. The Archaeological Signature of Behavioral Modernity: A
Perspective from the Southern Periphery of the Modern
Human Range ............................................... 253
Nicola Stern
12. Variation in Goat Diet through the Later Pre-Pottery
Neolithic: Diachronic Shifts in Human Approaches to
Caprine Management at Basta ............................... 285
Cheryl Makarewicz and Noreen Tuross
13. From Eynan (Ain Mallaha) to Netiv Hagdud: Developing a
New Self-Awareness ........................................ 303
François R.Valla
14. The Transition from Neolithic to Chalcolithic in the
Southern Levant: The Material Culture Sequence ............ 325
Yosef Garfinkel
15. The Neolithic-Chalcolithic Transition in the Southern
Levant: Late Sixth-Fifth Millennium Culture History ....... 335
Isaac Gilead
16. The Mesolithic of the Aegean Basin: How to Interpret
the Pre-Neolithic Settlement of the Aegean Islands
and Its Role in the Neolithization of Southeastern
Europe .................................................... 357
Janusz K. Kozłowski and Małgorzata Kaczanowska
17. Paleoindian Stability during the Younger Dryas in
the North American Lower Great Lakes ...................... 385
Metin I. Eren
18. Diagenetic Transformations: Deciphering the
Archaeological Record of Prehistoric Caves ................ 419
Steve Weiner
19. Geoarchaeology, Site Formation, and Transitions ........... 431
Paul Goldberg, Liliane Meignen, and Carolina Mallol
20. Vere Gordon Childe and the Concept of Revolution .......... 445
C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
21. Pattern and Technology: Why the Chaine Opératoire
Matters ................................................... 467
Michael Chazan
22. The "Nature of Transitions" in the Stone Age:
A Comparative Approach .................................... 477
Aaron Jonas Stutz
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