Arguing that flint tools alone reveal little about prehistoric societies, these eight papers use ethnological data to reconstruct the cultural, economic and social context of these tools. Taken from Symposium 1.4 at the XIVth UISPP Congress held at Liege in 2001, the papers consider evidence largely from sites in South America, Australia and Africa, looking at lithic material as well as associated evidence, such as worked bone, leather and grinding stones. This material is used to assess prehistoric hunting strategies, knapping procedures, the reasons for the use-wear of lithics and the opportunistic working of tools. Six papers in English, the rest are French; English abstracts.

This volume, another in the series publishing the acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001, comprises twenty-two papers on human occupation and industry during the Lower Palaeolithic. Sections examine new evidence for lithic industry across southern and western Europe, Palaeolithic habitats, and human and Neanderthal remains. The majority of papers are in French, all have English and French abstracts.

This research presents the qualitative and quantitative data collected from the architecture within ten Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic settlements in the Central and Southwestern regions of modern-day Anatolia. The sites investigated are: Akl Hoyuek, Catalhoyuek, Canhasan III, Canhasan I, Guevercinkayas, Hoyuecek, Bademadac, Erbaba, Haclar and Kurucay. After investigating the interplay between theory and methodology in order to establish a research methodology, the work offers a general overview of the topography and climate of Central and Southwest Anatolia, reviews the current state of archaeological knowledge about prehistoric subsistence and settlement patterns and explains the selection of the ten sites for further study. The qualitative and quantitative data for these ten sites are then presented and analysed and the concluding chapter considers to what extent the research has been able to contribute to current theories about household and community within the Near East. Includes appendices of sites and data.

This volume forms a review of the maritime archaeology and topography of the Aeolian islands, located off Sicily at the centre of the south Tyrrhenian Sea, from the prehistoric to Roman period. The background to historical and archaeological surveys around the Aeolian islands is presented ahead of detailed discussions of ancient navigation and marine-meteorological conditions, as well as reviews of literary and archaeological evidence. New data on maritime topography including wrecks, cargoes, anchorages, ancient coast lines and sites relating to shipping, is also discussed. Although islands are often regarded as rather backward and, by definition, insular places, the concluding assessment of the evidence from the Neolithic to late Roman period, demonstrates the degree of extra-island contact, interaction and overall influence of other regions on these islands through increased trade and exchange.

These seventeen essays are written in honour of Lorraine Copeland which reflect her interest in the prehistory of the Near East and her belief that river sediments were the key to providing a preliminary chronological framework for lithic industries' during the Palaeolithic and Neolithic. The majority of the papers, which all begin with French and English abstracts, focus on archaeological investigations, lithic assemblages and environmental remains from specific sites and areas, including the north Levantine rift valley, El Meirah and El Kowm in Syria, neanderthal burials in the Dederiyeh cave in Syria, Mureybet, the Kahabur basin and Tell Sabi Abyad. Other contributors discuss more general themes such as the idea of frontiers and territories, the transition from the Epipalaeolithic to the Neolithic and the Palaeolithic of the Euphrates Valley in Syria. The papers are supported by numerous illustrations and tables of data. Ten papers in French, seven in English.

Based on the author's thesis, this study examines the processes and chronology of the early human dispersal Out of Africa' to the Old World. Immersing himself in the debate surrounding early human occupation outside of Africa, Marco Langbroek begins by assessing and critiquing claims for the early occupation of Eurasia before 1.4MA, and from 1.4-0.5MA, looking at dating evidence, sites, artefacts and fossil finds. By developing a colonisation model which builds a framework for analysing the evolution of hominin capacities', he suggests an initial occupation of Eurasia c.1.3MA.

Bronzeworking was an important industry in the late Bronze Age Aegean and this thesis draws on a large database of material related to Late Minoan bronze objects, raw materials, evidence for workshops and so on. Lena Hakulin not only presents an overview of the bronzeworking industry on Late Minoan Crete but she also tackles some of the fundamental questions associated with identifying the sources used, where the skills and technology originated and how they developed, and seeks to account for changes in object types, find contexts, technology and copper sources over time. The text is short (36 pages) with much of the volume taken up by appendices presenting tables of data.

A session held at the TAG conference in Cardiff in 1999 sought to steer Mesolithic debates away from traditional lithic approaches and instead considered social aspects of Mesolithic life. The seventeen papers given here, many of which are from that conference, discuss a wide range of subjects: the people behind the lithics', interaction with the landscape, with animals, food and subsistence, body ornament and burial practices, settlement, violence and death, revisiting Star Carr. Contributors are: Marek Zvelebil, Peter Jordan, Lynne Bevan, Biddy Simpson, Jenny Moore, Malcolm Lillie, Richard Chatterton, C Richards, R J Schulting, Christophe Cupillard, George Nash, I J N Thorpe, Rebekah Judeh .

The people behind the pots' are never far away from these thirteen papers which cover many aspects of the use and manufacture of prehistoric pottery. The papers, which are all in English, form the proceedings of a conference jointly organised by the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group and the Ceramics Petrology Group, held in Bradford in 2002. Subjects include: the introduction of pottery in the Somerset Levels during the early Neolithic; the use of ceramics in the Upper Palaeolithic; the potential role of ceramics for recognising evidence for the exploitation of fish; the use of pottery in Dutch Hunebedden; the technological evidence for continuity and change in the late Neolithic in southern France; Proto-Common Ware from Pompeii; Iron Age pottery from Little Paxton near Bedford; the provenance of prehistoric pottery in the East Midlands; new pots or new people? La Tene pottery from Celtic Germany; late prehistoric material from Iberia; organic residues in storage vessels from the Toumba Thessalonikis; new dates for Scottish Bronze Age cinerary urns.

This technical study of biological population affinities amongst Eastern Mediterranean Chalcolithic and Bronze Age humn skeletal examples' is based on the author's analysis of 686 samples from eight sites in Cyprus, Greece and Syria. Parras focused on age, sex and non-metric traits from the dentition, crania and post-crania.

The numerous rescue excavations conducted in Athens and Attica by the Archaeological Service during and after the major construction projects of the 2004 Olympic Games brought to light significant new prehistoric finds which have transformed our understanding of the region in prehistory. However, despite their importance, the new discoveries had remained mostly unnoticed by the international community, as the results were scattered in various publications, and no synthesis was ever attempted. The goal of the 2015 international conference Athens and Attica in Prehistory, which was organized by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the University of Athens (Department of Archaeology and History of Art), the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Ephorate of Antiquites of East Attica (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) was to gather scholars working in the region and present for the first time a survey of Attic prehistory which would include the most recent discoveries and integrate over a century of scholarship. The 668- page conference proceedings include over 66 papers in Greek and English with sections dedicated to topography, the palaeo-environment, the Neolithic, the Chalcolithic transition, the Early Bronze Age, the Middle and Late Bronze Age, as well as the contacts between Attica and its neighbouring regions. A series of new detailed maps, derived from an exhaustive GIS-related database, provide the most up to date topographical and archaeological survey of Prehistoric Attica. Athens and Attica in Prehistory provides the most complete overview of the region from the Neolithic to the end of the Late Bronze Age. Its importance goes beyond the field of Aegean prehistory, as it paves the way for a new understanding of Attica in the Early Iron Age and indirectly throws new light on the origins of what will later become the polis of the Athenians.

The question of whether a Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition took place is reassessed here based on recent finds. Evidence from seven sites is presented and compared using statistical methods. A technological analysis of reduction strategies and the major tool types in the assemblages supports the idea of changes in Middle to Upper Palaeolthic technologies. This therefore adds weight to the argument for a transitional phenomemon in northern Israel.

These seven papers from a session held at the XIVth UISSP congress held in Liege in 2001, focus on the little-studied subject of water management on the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age taking case studies from across Europe and the Near East. The contributors define water as an appropriate category for study within prehistoric societies drawing on a range of archaeological, historical, geographical, cultural and ethnographic sources. The case studies cover a broad range of subjects including engineering and water management schemes, the construction of dams and dykes, methods of drawing water, cultural interaction and communication facilitated by water, anthropological models and the impact of the intensified exploitation of water.

The recognition and concomitant study of discoid flaking procedures in Early and Middle European Palaeolithic lithic assemblages, is at a very early stage. This volume contains fifteen studies which present new data and research from sites in France, Spain, Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The contributors seek to add clarity to the definition of this flaking method and to study variability in techno-morphological features, and in the use and procurement of raw materials. Papers in French and English; abstracts in English, French and Italian.

An examination of later Mesolithic fishing strategies based primarily on indirect evidence and conjecture. Archaeological evidence from coastal sites and shell middens for example is considered alongside ethnographic parallels and modern fishing practices. Indirect evidence for the exploitation of fish and other marine resources include possible traps, bait, hooks, boats and dugouts, and much broader processes of sea level change, the impact of the introduction of farming, settlement and dietary change are also considered.

In the last twenty years historians and social scientists have seen a veritable explosion of research into food and its consumption and social context. And yet archaeology has been slow to catch on. This is all the more surprising since the 'bread and butter' of archaeology are the residues of food preparation and consumption - animal bones, pottery and other containers, cooking places and other technologies of preparation, plant remains (micro and macro), landscapes and settlements, grave goods, etc., etc. This volume of papers arises out of a conference held in Sheffield in 1999, organised jointly by The Prehistoric Society and the Sheffield University Archaeology Society, on 'Food, Identity and Culture in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age'. The aim was to bring together the different archaeological interests - from archaeological science and humanities perspectives - in food as cultural artefact/ecofact, to examine the potential of the new and developing scientific techniques for reconstructing prehistoric food habits, and to foster an integrated approach to the archaeology of food regardless of different researchers' specialisms.The 12 papers in this volume include: (1) Food, culture and identity: an introduction and overview; (2) Explaining the dietary isotope evidence for the rapid adoption of the Neolithic in Britain; (3) In the kinship of cows: the social centrality of cattle in the earlier Neolithic of southern Britain; (4) Animals into ancestors: domestication, food and identity in Late Neolithic Orkney; (5) Early Neolithic diets: evidence from pathology and dental wear; (6) The use of dental microwear to infer diet and subsistence patterns in past human populations; (7) You are where you ate: isotopic analysis in the reconstruction of prehistoric residency; (8) Diet and culture in southern Britain: the evidence from Yarnton; (9) Dairying, dairy products and milk residues: potential studies in European prehistory; (10) Neolithic and Early Bronze Age 'food' from northern Greece: the archaeobotanical evidence; (11) Changing paradigms: food as a metaphor for cultural identity among prehistoric fisher-gatherer-hunter communities of northern Europe; (12) Mead, chiefs and feasts in later prehistoric Europe.

Subsistence practices are frequently argued to have been important factors in the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition, although all too often very little systematic research has provided any empirical data on which to base such arguments. The research on which this volume is based analysed archaeobotanical evidence retrieved from five sites in Macedonia and Thrace covering the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age period. Valamoti aims to provide a better understanding of the nature of settlements, settlement expansion and the development of hierarchies during this period through the interrogation of plant remains. In so doing, she provides valuable insights into aspects of land use, plant exploitation (wild versus cultivated), husbandry methods, seasonality, grazing patterns, animal feeding and so on and is able to make some preliminary arguments for the role of agricultural practices in socio-economic organisation and settlement patterns, leading the way for future research.

This selection of papers from the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001 comprises eleven contributions from the field of archaeometry. Mainly comprising case studies, the papers examine lithic, copper and ceramic technology and evidence from sites in France, Argentina, Spain, Carpathia, Portugal, Italy and the Mediterranean. The emphasis is on the Palaeolithic with contributions on both modern human and Neanderthal technology and their use of raw resources. Papers in English and French; all have abstracts in both languages.

This detailed study of the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Britain and Ireland examines evidence related to changes in social behaviour. Martin King discusses economic and subsistence data, burial practices, mobility, social order, construction, land clearance and the deposition of artefacts, interpreting this material evidence in social terms. This study concludes that the Mesolithic and Neolithic should be seen as one long-term trend where differences have previously been overplayed in an attempt to bring the Neolithic into line with a more recognisable modern world. Importantly, his approach allows for the identification of human social behaviour which may have no parallels in the modern world.

Acknowledging problems inherent in dating Australian rock art, Natalie Franklin approaches a group of engravings known as the Panaramitee style' in terms of its spatial variation. By assessing the diversity and distribution of this style both regionally and on an Australian-wide scale, and by setting up a typology of these non-figurative motifs, she reveals that different motifs are emphasised in certain regions. This pattern of variability between and within regions is argued to be due to the fact that these motifs are associated with parts of Dreaming tracks which are a feature of Australian cosmology. The fact that these motifs may have a variety of meanings Franklin argues may account for their continued use over a period of at least 14,000 years.

With the aim of building up a much-needed reference collection for the determination of ancient production methods for cast bronze artefacts, a series of experiments were carried out at the University of Sheffield. This volume publishes the methodology and results of these experiments where bronze flat axes were cast using three types of moulds - sand, clay and bronze - under controlled conditions and were cooled using different techniques. The microstructure, malleability and behaviour of the copper alloy elements during melting and casting were then compared. A study with important implications for ancient production methods of cast bronze artefacts.

These fifteen papers originated at the Origins of LBK symposium held at the 8th Meeting of the EAA in Thessaloniki in Greece in 2002. Their aim is to summarise recent developments in research and fieldwork in order to encourage debate surrounding the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in eastern Europe. The contributions are divided into three sections which look at theoretical approaches to the LBK, problems of chronology and defining characteristics of the LBK, and life and times in the early LBK. This last section includes papers on zooarchaeology, landscape and settlements, the bone industry and symbolic objects. The papers cover evidence from across central and eastern Europe including the Balkans, Slovakia, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, and include case studies and synthetic discussions.

Section 9 of the UISPP Congress held at the Univeristy of Liege in 2001 focused on the archaeological evidence for the Neolithic in the Near East and Europe. The proceedings, printed here, comprise three case studies on Neolithic society and economy and seven lithic studies. An additional nineteen general papers discuss a range of sites across Europe, the Aegean and Near East as well as burials, ceramics, mines, textiles, cosmology, rock art and obsidian. There are a further nine posters. The proceedings of Section 10 are also presented here. This session focused on the religion of the Neolithic and Chalcolthic. Five papers discuss the evidence for ritual and the sacred in Italy and Romania, followed by nine general papers on Chalcolithic settlements and remains in Turkey, the Balkans, Italy, Romania, France and Spain. Thirty-one contributions in English, the rest in French.

Early humans did not simply drift northward from their African origins as their abilities to cope with cooler climates evolved. The initial settlement of places like Europe and northern Asia, as well as the later movement into the Arctic and the Americas, actually occurred in relatively rapid bursts of expansion. A Prehistory of the North is the first full-length study to tell the complex story, spanning almost two million years, of how humans inhabited some of the coldest places on earth. In an account rich with illustrations, John Hoffecker traces the history of anatomical adaptations, diet modifications, and technological developments, such as clothing and shelter, that allowed humans the continued ability to push the boundaries of their frontier. The book concludes by showing how in the last few thousand years, peoples living in the circumpolar zone--with the exception of western and central Siberia--developed a thriving maritime economy. Written in no technical language, A Prehistory of the North provides compelling new insights and valuable information for professionals and students.

This volume presents 33 papers from sessions held at the XIVth UISPP Congress at the University of Liege in 1991. The focus of this Section is on the archaeological and material evidence for the Upper Palaeolithic. Divided into six sections, the contributions discuss: evidence from western Europe; the site of Abri Pataud in the Dordogne; raw materials; subsistence; central and eastern Europe and Asia; posters. Fourteen papers in English, the rest are in French with English abstracts.