CAA is the foremost conference on digital archaeology, and this volume offers a comprehensive and up-to date reference to the state of the art. This volume contains a selection of the best papers presented at the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), held in Southampton from 26 to 29 March 2012. The papers, all written and peer-reviewed by experts in the field of digital archaeology, explore a multitude of topics to showcase ground-breaking technologies and best practice from various archaeological and informatics disciplines, with a variety of case studies from all over the world. Download the Table of Contents and a sample chapter

Papers from the 2011 conference marking ten years of Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO, University of Southampton). Contents: Introduction (Clive Gamble); 1) Lower Palaeolithic of Central and Eastern Europe: Critical Re-evaluation of the Current State of Knowledge (Iza Romanowska); 2) The Earliest Middle Stone Age of Northern South Africa: The Cave of Hearths and Bushman Rock Shelter (David Underhill); 3) Quaternary Environments and Archaeology of Jersey: A New Multidisciplinary project looking at the early prehistoric occupation of the English Channel Region (Matt Pope et al.); 4) Interglacial Neanderthal Ecology: evidence of absence? (Rachel Bynoe); 5) Neanderthal land-use and related tool-kits at the MIS 5/4 boundary in the South-East portion of the French Massif Central (Jean-Paul Raynal et al.); 6) Creating Country: Late Middle Palaeolithic Landscape Enculturation (Rebecca Wragg Sykes); 7) Changing Scales of Obsidian Movement and Social Networking (Theodora Moutsiou); 8) Analyzing the Child Burials of Upper Palaeolithic Europe (Jessica Cooney); 9) Ancient Magdalenian of the French Massif Central revisited: a reappraisal of unit F2 of the Rond du Barry cave (Polignac, Haute-Loire, France) (Audrey Lafarge et al.); 10) The social contexts of Palaeolithic Figural Art: Performativity, Materialisation and Fragmentation (Liliane Janik); 11) Differentiating French Magdalenian portable art assemblages: new analyses of low-relief technologies on antler (Rebecca Farbstein); 12) Scatters, Patches, and Palimpsests: Solving the Contemporaneity Problem (Matt Grove); 13) People, places and things: understanding Lateglacial personhood through mobility and exchange (Fotini Kofido); 14) CAHO 10 Closing words (John McNabb and William Davies).