Gerd-Christian Weniger and Jörg Orschiedt. Preface .............. 7
Gerd-Christian Weniger and Jörg Orschiedt. New Answers to
Old Questions? ............................................... 8
Olaf Jöris and Bernhard Weninger. Approaching the Calendric
Age-dimension at the Transition from the Middle to Upper
Palaeolithic in Europe ...................................... 13
Philip Allsworth-Jones. Dating the transition between Middle
and Upper Palaeolithic in Eastern Europe .................... 20
D. Richter, B. Mauz, U. Böhner, W. Weissmüller, G.A.
Wagner, G. Freund, W. J. Rink, and J. Richter.
Luminescence Dating of the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic sites
'Sesselfelsgrotte' and 'Abri I am Schulerloch',
Altmühltal, Bavaria ......................................... 30
Claus-Joachim Kind. Red Deers, Reindeers, and Sidescrapers.
The Middle Palaeolithic Site Kogelstein Cave ................ 42
Mark Leney. Bear feet in the Pleistocene: Ecological
heterogeneity in Croatian Ursus and its comparative and
co-evolutionary implications ................................ 54
Rudolf Musil. The Environment in Moravia during the Stage
OIS 3 ....................................................... 68
Janusz K. Kozlowski. Southern Poland between 50 and 30 Kyr
B.P., Environment and Archaeology ........................... 76
Gilbert Tostevin. The Middle Upper Paleolithic Transition
from the Levant to Central Europe: in situ development
or diffusion? ............................................... 92
Clemens Pasda. The Schwalbenberg near Remagen: late Middle
Palaeolithic artefacts at the end of the middle Würmian .... 112
Jürgen Richter. Social memory among late Neanderthals ......... 123
Thorsten Uthmeier. Stone Tools, „Time of Activity", and the
Transition from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic in
Bavaria (Germany) .......................................... 133
Petr Neruda. The Cultural Significance of Bifacial Retouch.
The Transition From the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Age
in Moravia ................................................. 151
Ivor Karavanić. Olschewian and appearance of bone technology
in Croatia and Slovenia .................................... 159
Brian Adams. Archaeological Investigations at Two
Open-Air Sites in the Bukk Mountain Region of Northeast
Hungary .................................................... 169
Tsoni Tsonev. Factors for Middle/Upper Palaeolithic
Transition in Eastern Balkans .............................. 183
Marin Cârciumaru and Mircea Anghelinu. The Carpatian
Mousterian and the Transition from Middle to Upper
Palaeolithic in Southern Romania ........................... 190
Victor P. Chabai. The Evolution of Western Crimean
Mousterian Industry ........................................ 196
Anthony E. Marks and Katherine Monigal. The Middle to Upper
Palaeolithic Interface at Buran-Kaya-lll, Eastern Crimea ... 212
Francesco d'Errico and Veronique Laroulandie. Bone
Technology at the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition.
The case of worked bones from Buran-Kaya III level С
(Crimea, Ukraine) .......................................... 227
Andreas Pastoors. Standardization and Individuality in the
Production Process of Bifacial Tools-Leaf-shaped Scrapers
from the Middle Paleolithic Open Air Site Saré Kaya I
(Crimea)
A contribution to understanding the method of Working
Stage Analysis ............................................. 243
P.Е. Nehoroshev and L.B. Vishnyatsky. Shlyakh. A new late
Middle Paleolithic Site in the South Russian Plain ......... 256
Ralf W. Schmitz and Jürgen Thissen. First archaeological
finds and new human remains at the rediscoverd site of
the Neanderthal type specimen. A preliminary report ........ 267
Miriam Noel Haidle. Neanderthals - ignorant relatives or
thinking siblings? A discussion of the "cognitive
revolution" at around 40,000 B.P. .......................... 275
Silvana Condemi. The Neanderthals: Homo neanderthalensis or
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis? Is there a contradiction
between the Paleogenetic and the Paleonthropoligical
Data? ...................................................... 287
Alfred Czarnetzki. The Significance of Pathological Changes
for Judging the Morphology of Classical Neanderthals ....... 296
Frank Tschentscher, Christian Capelli, Helga Geisert, Heike
Krainitzki, Ralf W. Schmitz and Matthias Krings.
Mitrochondrial DNA sequemces from the Neanderthals ......... 303
Michael Scholz, Lutz Bachmann, Graeme J. Nicholson, Jutta
Bachmann, Sylvia Hengst, Ian Giddings, Barbara Rüschoff-
Thale, Josef Klostermann, Alfred Czarnetzki and Carsten
M. Pusch. How different are the genomes of Neanderthals
and anatomically modern man? A DNA hybridization
approach ................................................... 315
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