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).

The long Palaeolithic sequence of Karain (Antalya, Turkey) began around 500,000 years ago and continued until the final Palaeolithic around 10,000 BC. This volume presents all the cultural and technical variations during this immense period, situated in a context which joins Africa, Asia, and Europe. In brief, the assemblage of tools appears to belong to Asian traditions; no Acheulian bifaces were observed. The earlier half of the sequence (stages 9 and 10) corresponds to centripetal industries with thick flakes and with denticulates and racloirs, classified as 'Proto-Charentian'. 'Modern archaic' human remains were sporadically discovered there. The upper phase is by far the most important: stages 8 to 5. These are superb Levallois industries with good quality exogenous materials. The tools are made from elongated flakes and transformed into racloirs with very elegant points. They have been termed 'Karain Mousterian'. Human remains are also associated with this phase (mandible and phalanges). The final phase (stage 4) is classically Mousterian with Neanderthal human remains.