Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. List of contributors x
5. A Regional Studies
6. 1. Social and Ecological Models for the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa 3
7. 2. A Critique of the Consensus View on the Age of Howieson's Poort Assemblages in South Africa 34
8. 3: The Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of the Near East and the Nile Valley: the Problem of Cultural Transformations 56
9. 4: The Amudian in the Context of the Mugharan Tradition at the Tabun Cave (Mount Carmel), Israel 81
10. 5: A Technological Analysis ofthe Upper Palaeolithic Levels (XXV-VI) of Ksar Akil, Lebanon 91
11. 6: Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: the Evidence for the Nile Valley 139
12. 7: The Szeletian and the Stratigraphic Succession in Central Europe and Adjacent Areas: Main Trends, Recent Results, and Problems for Resolution 160
13. 8: Chronological Change in Perigord Lithic Assemblage Diversity 243
14. 9: The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Southwestern France: Interpreting the Lithic Evidence 262
15. 10: The Early Upper Palaeolithic of Southwest Europe: Cro-Magnon Adaptations in the Iberian Peripheries, 40 000 - 20 000 BP 276
16. 11: The Transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne, France): Technological, Economic and Social Aspects 303
17. 12: Peopling Australasia: the 'Coastal Colonization' Hypothesis Re-examined 327
18. B General Studies
19. 13: Middle Palaeolithic Socio-Economic Fonnations in Western Eurasia: an Exploratory Survey 347
20. 14: Aspects of Behaviour in the Middle Palaeolithic: Functional Analysis of Stone Tools from Southwest France 389
21. 15: A Multiaspectual Approach to the Origins of the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe 419
22. 16: From the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic: The Nature of the Transition 438
23. 17: Early Hominid Symbol and Evolution of the Human Capacity 457
24. 18: Human Cognitive Changes at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition: the Evidence of Boker Tachtit 499
25. 19: Symbolic Origins and Transitions in the Palaeolithic 517
26. Index of Authors 541
27. Index of Sites and Locations 549