Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • 1. On the Difficulty of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transitions
  • 2. Early Upper Paleolithic Backed Blade Industries in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3. Continuities, Discontinuities, and Interactions in Early Upper Paleolithic Technologies: A View from the Middle Danube
  • 4. Koulichivka and Its Place in the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Eastern Europe
  • 5. Origins of the European Upper Paleolithic, Seen from Crimea: Simple Myth or Complex Reality?
  • 6. The Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic on the Russian Plain
  • 7. Emergence of the Levantine Upper Paleolithic: Evidence from the Wadi al-Hasa
  • 8. New Perspectives on the Initial Upper Paleolithic: The View from 220;231;aizli Cave, Turkey
  • 9. The Upper Paleolithic in Western Georgia
  • 10. The Aurignacian in Asia
  • 11. The Middle-Upper Paleolithic Interface in Former Soviet Central Asia
  • 12. The Early Upper Paleolithic of Siberia
  • 13. Origin of the Upper Paleolithic in Siberia: A Geoarchaeological Perspective
  • 14. Initial Upper Paleolithic Blade Industries from the North-Central Gobi Desert, Mongolia
  • 15. The Initial Upper Paleolithic at Shuidonggou, Northwestern China
  • 16. The Early Upper Paleolithic and the Origins of Modern Human Behavior
  • REFERENCES
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
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