The book publishes the proceedings of the workshop held in Rome in March 2012 that was intended to bring together archaeologists, scientists and students involved in the study of use-wear traces on prehistoric stone tools and/or in the identification of micro residues that might be present in them in order to hypothesize their function. Use-wear analysis carried out with microscopic analysis at low or high magnification is, at present, a settled procedure. The individuation and identification of residues is attempted using morphological and chemical techniques, these latter divided between invasive and non-invasive. Each employed technique has its own advantages and limitations. Both traces and residues analysis require a comparison to useful replicas. Even with regard to the making of replicas, no shared protocol exists.

A collection of papers focusing on questions of Copper Age metallurgical contexts, outlining the importance of an integrated analysis of artefacts, considering pottery, metal, stone and osseous productions as inseparable aspects of economic and social choices.

Lemorini seeks to challenge the theory that neanderthals possessed only a minimal capacity for anticipation, and to evaluate the methods of subsistence provisioning in the Paleolithic, with particular reference to the two sites cited in the title. The somewhat half-hearted general conclusion is that temporal variations within the sites render a conclusion impossible. Nevertheless, on the basis of individual findings this will no doubt be a useful reference work on the behaviour of neanderthals.