Part I Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives
Has the Notion of "Transitions" in Paleolithic Prehistory
Outlived Its Usefulness? The European Record in Wider Context ... 3
Lawrence Guy Straus
Accidents of History: Conceptual Frameworks in
Paleoarchaeology ............................................... 19
Geoffrey A. Clark
Defining Modernity, Establishing Rubicons, Imagining
the Other—and the Neanderthal Enigma ........................... 43
Olga Soffer
The Longest Transition or Multiple Revolutions? ................ 65
John A.J. Gowlett
Quantifying Transitions: Morphometric Approaches to
Palaeolithic Variability and Technological Change .............. 79
Stephen J. Lycett
ESR Dating at Hominid and Archaeological Sites During
the Pleistocene ................................................ 93
Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Anne R. Skinner, Joel I.B.
Blickstein, L.V. Golovanova, V.B. Doronichev, and
M.R. Seronie-Vivien
The South Asian Paleolithic Record and Its Potential
for Transitions Studies ....................................... 121
Parth R. Chauhan
DISCUSSION 1: An Overview of Matters Transitional, From
the Outside Looking In ........................................ 141
Angela E. Close
Part II Changes Within the Lower Paleolithic
From Nothing to Something: The Appearance and Context
of the Earliest Archaeological Record ....................... 155
Michael J. Rogers and Sileshi Semaw
The Oldowan-Acheulian Transition: Is there a "Developed
Oldowan" Artifact Tradition? .................................. 173
Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, and Dietrich Stout
Lower Palaeolithic Transitions in the Northern Latitudes
of Eurasia .................................................... 195
Jan Michal Burdukiewicz
Hominin Adaptability and Patterns of Faunal Turnover
in the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition in the Levant ... 211
Miriam Belmaker
DISCUSSION 2: Transitions: Behavioral Change in the Early
Pleistocene ................................................... 229
Robin Dennell
Part III Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transitions
Assessing the Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition .......... 237
Michael Chazan
The East Asian Middle Paleolithic Reexamined .................. 245
Christopher J. Norton, Xing Gao, and Xingwu Feng
The Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition in South Asia
and Its Implications for Hominin Cognition and Dispersals ..... 255
H. James and M.D. Petraglia
DISCUSSION 3: The Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition ...... 265
Paola Villa
Part IV Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transitions
The Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition Revisited ............. 273
Robert G. Bednarik
Historical Perspectives on the European Transition from
Middle to Upper Paleolithic ................................... 283
Francis B. Harrold
From the Middle to the Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa ...... 301
Pamela R. Willoughby
Comparing Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transitions in the
Middle East and Egypf ......................................... 315
Deborah I. Olszewski
Through the Looking-Glass. The Most Recent Years of
Cantabrian Research in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic
Transition .................................................... 333
Alvaro Arrizabalaga and Maria José Iriarte
The Transitional Aurignacian and the Middle-Upper
Palaeolithic Transition Model in Cantabrian Iberia ............ 341
Federico Bernaldo de Quirós, and José Manuel
Maillo-Fernández
Hard Work Never Goes to Waste: The Role of Iberia
in the Mid-Upper Paleolithic Transition ....................... 361
Marta Camps
What Is a 'Transitional' Industry? The Uluzzian of Southern
Italy as a Case Study ......................................... 377
Julien Riel-Salvatore
Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in Vindija Cave
(Croatia): New Results and Interpretations .................... 397
Ivor Karavanic and Marylene Patou-Mathis
Szeletian, Not Aurignacian: A Review of the Chronology
and Cultural Associations of the Vindija G1 Neandertals ....... 407
João Zilhão
The Biikk Mountain Szeletian: Old and New Views on
"Transitional" Material from the Eponymous Site of the
Szeletian ..................................................... 427
Brian Adams
The Subsistence Behaviours of the Last Crimean Neanderthals ... 441
Marylene Patou-Mathis
DISCUSSION 4: The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition:
What News? .................................................... 455
Erella Hovers
Part V The Later Paleolithic
Investigating the Aurignacian/Gravettian Transition in the
Bistri{a Valley (NE-Romania) .................................. 465
Leif Steguweit
Modern Human Colonization of the Siberian Mammoth Steppe:
A View from South-Central Siberia ............................. 479
Kelly E. Graf
Shades of Gray: The Paleoindian-Early Archaic "Transition"
in the Northeast .............................................. 503
J.M. Adovasio and Kurt W. Carr
Central Andean Lithic Techno-Typology at the Terminal
Pleistocene-Early Holocene Transition ......................... 527
Elmo Leon Canales
The Paleolithic-Mesolithic Transition ......................... 537
Marcel Otte
DISCUSSION 5: Transitions in the Later Palaeolithic ........... 555
Rupert A. Housley
Afterword ..................................................... 561
Luiz Oosterbeek
Index ......................................................... 563
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