28 papers from Sections 17 (American Prehistory) and 17.1 (Change in the Andes: Origins of Social Complexity, Pastoralism and Agriculture), Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liege, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001.

21 papers from Section 15 (African Prehistory), Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liege, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001. French and English."

8 papers from Section 16 (Asian and Oceanic Prehistory) Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liege, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001. French and English."

These seventeen papers comprise the proceedings of Section 12 of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. Focusing on the archaeological evidence for the Iron Age in Europe, the contributions discuss (for example): early La Tene iconography; Hallstatt burial rituals; amphorae; Greek elements in eastern Halstatt religion; edifices with an apse in Dacia; a fortified site in Hungary; Piceni settlements; horse skeletal remains; distinguishing between Bronze Age and Iron Age pits in Belgium; using storage pits for cereal in Iberia; treasure from Romania; excavations in Portugal; early Iron Age sites in West Germany. NIne papers in French, one in German, the rest in English.

These fourteen papers were presented as part of Section 14 of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. The papers present a broad mix of medieval archaeology and history, including: cave santuaries in the Pre-Urals; the early medieval Great Hungarian Plain; ritual bronze cauldrons; fountains in Viterbo; a cemetery at saint-Esteve-le-Pont; funerary practices in Picardy; woodworking in central and northern Europe; interaction between migration groups and local populations in the early Middle Ages; fortresses on the French-Spanish border; ceramics from an abandoned chateau; the study of architecture from an archaeological perspective; dwarfism; catacombs.

These thirty-two papers have been taken from General Session 11 of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. They provide new archaeological and material evidence and research from across Bronze Age Europe and throw fresh light on, for example, ritual and monument construction, funerary practices, contact between regions, hoards, metallurgy, chronology and early towns. More specific subjects include: the Bronze Age use of caves; Thracian monuments; Italian tablets; Iberian ceramics; the use of open space in Neopalatial Crete; Bronze Age Azerbaijan; Lerna; pottery and utensil production in Sicily, and much more. The majority of the papers are in English with the remainder in French.

This volume presents the proceedings of Section 18 of the Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. Despite the title, the minority of papers relate to museums; the ten papers focus on the preservation and restoration of Palaeolithic art and the history of prehistoric and protohistoric research. Case studies include Celts in Spain, the rock art of Cantabria, Altamira and France, and the management of archaeological data from Isernia La Pineta in Italy. Six papers in English, four in French.

This volume presents nine papers and one poster from general sessions at the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. These contributions focus on recent developments in Roman archaeology across Europe. Specific subjects include: the native aristocracy of Roman Pannonia; a Roman camp in Belgium; linguistics; three Etruscan trephinned skulls; the Gaulish Coligny calendar; Roman bronze ware in eastern Slavonia; Portuguese amphorae; Cilicia. Six papers in English, the remainder in French.

These nineteen papers form the proceedings of Section 8 of the Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. They focus on the iconography, symbolism and ideology of Rupestrian art from the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic perids. Supported throughout by illustrated examples, the papers discuss: the anthropological information revealed by Rupestrian art; the purpose and vocabulary of cave art; the themes and mythology; comparisons with the art of Native Americans. The volume includes case studies which cover evidence from Spain, Siberia, the Alps, the Dordogne, Lake Onega in Russia, Denmark, Norway and central Europe. Ten papers in English, the remainder in French.

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 volume, another in the series publishing the acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001, comprises fourteen papers from the field of palaeoecology. Contributors examine flora and fauna, cave sediments, nutrition and the origin of agriculture, covering the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age, at a number of sites, predominantly in western Europe. The Out of Africa' question is also discussed. Papers in French and English; all with abstracts in both languages.

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.

These 34 papers, taken from sessions at the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001, focus on the archaeological and material evidence for the Middle Palaeolithic. The papers, the majority of which are in French, examine lithic evidence and occupation deposits from sites across Europe. Twelve papers are in English; all have English abstracts.

This volume presents thirteen papers from three symposia held at the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. These symposia focused on Landscape use during the final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in north west Europe: the formation of extensive sites and site-complexes'; Late foragers and early farmers of the Lepenski Vir-Schela Cladovei Culture in the Iron Gates Gorge'; Intrusive farmers or indigeneous foragers: the new debate about the ethnolinguistic origins of Europe'. A further twelve papers, from a general session, discuss Palaeolithic and Mesolithic evidence from across Europe. These include reports on an Epipalaeolithic rabbit-skinning cave, Mesolithic skeletons and the cultures of France, southern Ukraine, north-eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Two posters conclude the proceedings. Six contributions in French, the rest in English.

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.

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.

Fourteen papers plus four posters from the Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liege in 2001. The contributors cover a series of subjects including technology in archaeology, statistical approaches to hominid evolution, palaeolithic cognition, analysing lithic tool use, the use of GIS and survey techniques, with case studies from Italy, France, Romania, Belgium and the United States.