New Approaches to the Study of Early Upper Paleolithic Transitional Industries in Western Eurasia: Transitions great and small (bar s)

This volume comprises essays first presented in the symposium Upper Paleolithic 'Transitional' Industries: New Questions, New Methods on March 21, 2002, at the 67th annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. Contents: 1) Asking New Questions and Using New Methods to Understand the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition (Julien Riel-Salvatore and Geoffrey A. Clark); 2) Even the Notion of a "Transitional Industry" is a Suspect Typological Construct (Lawrence Guy Straus); 3) On the Fate of the Neanderthals and the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Western Europe (Francis B. Harrold); 4) The Chatelperronian of Grotte XVI, Cenac-et-Saint-Julien (Dordogne, France)(Geraldine Lucas, Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Jan F. Simek and Marie Soressi); 5) "Transitional" Industries from Neandertals to Anatomically Modern Humans in Continental Italy:Present State of Knowledge (Amilcare Bietti and Fabio Negrino); 6) New Quantitative Perspectives on the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition: The View from the Northern Mediterranean (Julien Riel-Salvatore and C. Michael Barton); 7) The Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in Croatia (Ivor Karavanic); 8) Gulyas Archaeology: The Szeletian and the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Hungary and Central Europe (Brian Adams); 9. Hafting and Technological Innovation in the Western Eurasian Middle Paleolithic (Michael S. Bisson); 10) Issues in the Development of the Early Upper Paleolithic, and a "Transitional" Industry from the Zagros Region (Deborah I. Olszewski); 11) Putting Transition Research in a Broader Context. (Geoffrey A. Clark).Riel-Salvatore, Julien is the author of 'New Approaches to the Study of Early Upper Paleolithic Transitional Industries in Western Eurasia: Transitions great and small (bar s)', published 2007 under ISBN 9781407300320 and ISBN 1407300326.