1 Introduction ................................................. 1
Nicholas J. Conard and Jürgen Richter
Part I The Chronological Framework: Long Time Sequences
2 When Did the Middle Paleolithic Begin? ....................... 7
Jürgen Richter
3 Neanderthals and Monkeys in the Würmian of Central Europe:
The Middle Paleolithic Site of Hunas, Southern Germany ...... 15
Wilfried Rosendahl, Dieta Ambros, Brigitte Hilpert, Ulrich
Hambach, Kurt W. Alt, Maria Knipping, Ludwig Reisch, and
Brigitte Kaulich
4 Neanderthals in the Cold: Middle Paleolithic Sites from
the Open-Cast Mine of Garzweiler, Nordrhein-Westfalen
(Germany) ................................................... 25
Thorsten Uthmeier, Holger Kels, Wolfgang Schirmer, and Utz
Böhner
5 Neanderthal Occupation in the Verdon Valley (Haute-
Provence, Southeastern France) .............................. 43
Jean Gagnepain and Claire Gaillard
6 Dating Small Heated Flint Artifacts: A New
Thermoluminescence Technique ................................ 53
Daniel Richter
Part II Neanderthal Subsistence and Raw Material
Procurement
7 On Neanderthal Subsistence in Last Interglacial
Forested Environments in Northern Europe .................... 61
Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Wil Roebroeks
8 Diet and Ecology of Neanderthals: Implications from С and
N Isotopes
Insights from Bone and Tooth Biogeochemistry ................ 73
Herve Bocherens
9 Management of Paleoenvironmental Resources and
Exploitation of Raw Materials at the Middle Paleolithic
Site of Oscurusciuto (Ginosa, Southern Italy): Units 1
and 4 ....................................................... 87
Paolo Boscato, Paolo Gambassini, Filomena Ranaldo, and
Annamaria Ronchitelli
Part III Neanderthal Cognition and Technological Knowledge
10 Neanderthal Technoeconomics: An Assessment and Suggestions
for Future Developments ..................................... 99
Steven L. Kuhn
11 Blade Production in the Early Phase of the Middle
Paleolithic at Bapaume-Les Osiers (Pas-De-Calais, France):
Comments on the Distinction between the Early and Late
Phases of the Middle Paleolithic ........................... 111
Héloise Koehler
12 The Lithic Production System of the Middle Paleolithic
Settlement of Le Fond des Blanchards at Gron (Yonne,
France) .................................................... 121
Vincent Lhomme, Elisa Nicoud, Marina Pagli, Aude
Coudenneau, and Roxane Rocca
13 Technological Analysis of the Bifacial Tools from La
Micoque and Its Implications ............................... 133
Gaëlle Rosendahl
14 Handedness in Neanderthals ................................. 139
Natalie T. Uomini
Part IV Neanderthal Social Organization and Land Use
15 The Social and Material Life of Neanderthals ............... 157
Clive Gamble
16 Stability in the Intermittence
A Spatio-Temporal Approach to Mousterian Behavior in the
Near East Based on the Technological Analysis of Lithic
Industries of Complex V13 at Umm el Tlel (Central Syria) ... 167
Antoine Lourdeau
17 Territorial Mobility of Neanderthal Groups: A Case Study
from Level M of Abric Romani (Capellades, Barcelona,
Spain) ..................................................... 187
María C. Fernández-Laso, María G. Chacón Navarro, María
D. García-Antón, and Florent Rivals
18 Level G of Las Fuentes de San Cristobal (Southern
Pyrenees, Spain)
Availability of Lithic Resources and Territory
Management ................................................. 203
María D. García-Antón, Leticia Menéndez Granda, and María
G. Chacón Navarro
Part V Cultural Adaptation Among the Last Neanderthals
19 The Demise of the Neanderthal Cultural Niche and the
Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern
Germany ................................................... 223
Nicholas J. Conard
20 Level 14 of Bajondillo Cave and the End of the Middle
Paleolithic in the South of the Iberian Peninsula .......... 241
Miguel Cortés Sánchez, Juan F. Gibaja Bao, and Maria D.
Simon Vallejo
21 The End of the Middle Paleolithic in the Italian Alps
An Overview of Neanderthal Land Use, Subsistence and
Technology ................................................. 249
Marco Peresani
22 Technological Behavior and Mobility of Human Groups
Deduced from Lithic Assemblages in the Late Middle and
Early Late Pleistocene of the Middle Rhone Valley
(France) ................................................... 261
Marie-Hílène Moncel
Index ......................................................... 289
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