New approaches to the study of early upper Paleolithic 'transitional' industries in western Eurasia
Subtitle: transitions great and small
By: edited by Julien Riel-Salvatore, Geoffrey A. Clark.
Contributors: Riel-Salvatore, Julien; Clark, Geoffrey A.; Society for American Archaeology 
Series: BAR international series -- 1620
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781407300320
Subjects: Paleolithic period -- Eurasia.; Human behavior -- Eurasia.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Eurasia.; Human evolution -- Eurasia.; Stone age -- Eurasia.; Eurasia -- Antiquities.
Notes: 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.--p. [1].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Asking new questions and using new methods to understand the middle-upper Paleolithic transition / Julien Riel-Salvatore and Geoffrey A. Clark; value: Even the notion of a "transitional industry" is a suspect typological construct / Lawrence Guy Straus; value: On the fate of the neanderthals and the middle-upper Paleolithic transition in western Europe / Francis B. Harrold; value: The châtelperronian of Grotte XVI, Cénac-et-Saint-Julien (Dordogne, France) / Géraldine Lucas ... [et al.]; value: "Transitional industries" from Neandertals to anatomically modern humans in continental Italy: present state of knowledge / Amilcare Bietti and Fabio Negrino; value: New quantitative perspectives on the middle-upper Paleolithic transition: the view from the northern Mediterranean / Julien Riel-Salvatore and C. Michael Barton; value: The middle/upper Paleolithic interface in Croatia / Ivor Karavanic; value: Gulyás archaeology: the Szeletian and the middle to upper Palaeolithic transition in Hungary and Central Europe / Brian Adams; value: Hafting and technological innovation in the western Eurasian middle Paleolithic / Michael S. Bisson; value: Issues in the development of the early upper Paleolithic, and a "transitional" industry from the Zagros region / Deborah I. Olszewski; value: Putting transition research in a broader context / Geoffrey A. Clark.