Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. FIGURES AND TABLES vii
4. PREFACE xiii
5. 1. On the Difficulty of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transitions 1
6. 2. Early Upper Paleolithic Backed Blade Industries in Central and Eastern Europe 14
7. 3. Continuities, Discontinuities, and Interactions in Early Upper Paleolithic Technologies: A View from the Middle Danube 30
8. 4. Koulichivka and Its Place in the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Eastern Europe 50
9. 5. Origins of the European Upper Paleolithic, Seen from Crimea: Simple Myth or Complex Reality? 64
10. 6. The Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic on the Russian Plain 80
11. 7. Emergence of the Levantine Upper Paleolithic: Evidence from the Wadi al-Hasa 97
12. 8. New Perspectives on the Initial Upper Paleolithic: The View from Üçaǧizh Cave, Turkey 113
13. 9. The Upper Paleolithic in Western Georgia 129
14. 10. The Aurignacian in Asia 144
15. 11. The Middle-Upper Paleolithic Interface in Former Soviet Central Asia 151
16. 12. The Early Upper Paleolithic of Siberia 162
17. 13. Origin of the Upper Paleolithic in Siberia: A Geoarchaeological Perspective 196
18. 14. Initial Upper Paleolithic Blade Industries from the North-Central Gobi Desert, Mongolia 207
19. 15. The Initial Upper Paleolithic at Shuidonggou, Northwestern China 223
20. 16. The Early Upper Paleolithic and the Origins of Modern Human Behavior 242
21. References 249
22. Contributors 285
23. Index 287