These essays, from a session of the 15th uispp congress, investigate the ways in which prehistoric rock art interacted with the landscape to define symbolic space. The authors look at how the study of rock art can help to define prehistoric cultures and territories, as well as to symbolicaly demarcate space both in the context of a broad landscape and in, for example, an individual cave. Essays in French and English.

Papers from the session Le concept de territoires dans le Paleolithique superieur europeen (Vol. 3, Session C16) presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Le concept de territoires pour les chasseurs cueilleurs du Paleolithique superieur europeen (Francois Djindjian); 2) Le concept de territoire au Paleolithique superieur: la Pologne en peripherie septentrionale de loecumene (Janusz K. Kozlowski); 3) Le concept de territoire a partir des donnees des sites des regions du Dniepr au Paleolithique superieur recent en Europe orientale (Lioudmila Iakovleva ); 4) Ukrainian Upper Palaeolithic between 40/10 000 BP: Current Insights into Environmental-Climatic Change and Cultural Development (Vadim N. Stepanchuk, Igor V. Sapozhnikov, Mikhail I.Gladkikh, Sergei N.Ryzhov); 5) Mobilite des groupes prehistoriques et approvisionnement en matieres premieres a la fin du Paleolithique superieur dans le Petit Caucase: donnees recentes sur le site de plein air de Kalavan 1 (nord du lac Sevan, Armenie) (Liagre J., Arakelyan D., Gasparyan B., Nahapetyan S., Chataigner C.); 6) Searching for territoriality over a limited territory: the case of Greece (Eugenia Adam ); 7) Cultural regionalization in the Palaeolithic of the middle Danube basin and western Balkans (Duan Mihailovic, Bojana Mihailovic); 8) Le concept de territoire dans le Paleolithique superieur morave (Martin Oliva); 9) Methods of stone raw material characterisation and raw material origins in the Palaeolithic: State of art in Hungary (Katalin T. Biro, Viola T. Dobosi, Andras Marko); 10) Constancy and change in Upper Palaeolithic, Hungary (V.T. Dobosi); 11) The Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician and the limits of Aurignacian expansion on the Northern European Plain (Damien Flas); 12) Le territoire de la basse vallee du Rhin, de la Meuse et de leurs affluents a la fin du paleolithique superieur (Belgique, Hollande, Allemagne du nord-ouest) (Marcel Otte, Pierre Noiret); 13) Provenance de diverses matieres premieres: un indice pour definir circulations et territoires au Magdalenien superieur en Suisse (Marie-Isabelle Cattin, Jehanne Affolter, Nigel Thew); 14) Le territoire des chasseurs aurignaciens dans les Prealpes de la Venetie: lexemple de la grotte de Fumane (Stefano Bertola, Alberto Broglio, Giampaolo De Vecchi, Alessandra Facciolo, Ivana Fiore, Fabio Gurioli, Pasquino Pallecchi, Antonio Tagliacozzo); 15) Ressources lithiques en Languedoc-Roussillon et territoires dexploitations au Paleolithique superieur (Sophie Gregoire, Frederic Bazile, Guillaume Boccaccio); 16) Exploitation des ressources et territoire dans le Massif central francais au Paleolithique superieur: approche methodologique et hypotheses (Laure Fontana, Mahaut Digan, Thierry Aubry, Javier Mangado Llach, Francois-Xavier Chauviere); 17) Mobilite, territoires et relations culturelles au debut du Magdalenien moyen cantabrique: nouvelles perspectives (M Soledad Corchon Rodriguz, Antonio Tarrino Vinagre, Jimena Martinez); 18) Territorial patterns during Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Cantabrian Iberia (Ordono, Javier Arrizabalaga, Alvaro ); 19) Fashion and glamour: weaponry and beads as territorial markers in Southern Iberia (Nuno Bicho); 20) Ibex as indicator of hunter-gatherer mobility during the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (Paolo Boscato, Ursula Wierer).

This volume presents papers from two sessions of the 16th IUPPS Congress in Florianopolis, September 2011, entitled "Crossing straits and channels during pre- and protohistoric time," and Reconstructing ancient landscapes." Case studies are taken from around the world from the first human presence on Madagascar, to the archaeological remains of cattle's paths in Brazil, and from the origins of seafaring in the eastern Mediterranean to the use of LiDAR to reconstruct medieval landscapes in Central Europe.