Wild things: recent advances in palaeolithic and mesolithic research

Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide. Finds such as the Mesolithic house at Howick, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, and the recently discovered footprints at Happisburgh all serve to indicate how archaeologists in these fields are truly at the cutting edge of understanding humanity's past. This volume celebrates this trend by focusing on recent advances in the study of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. With contributors from a diverse range of backgrounds, it allows for a greater degree of interdisciplinary discourse than is often th.

Preface: "In March 2012, Durham University played host to the first Where the Wild Things Are conference, a symposium designed to provide an international forum that allowed the latest in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research to be presented and discussed".

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Problems and prospects / Natasha ReynoldsInvisible individuals, visible groups : on the evidence for individuals and groups at the lower palaeolithic site of Caddington, Bedfordshire, UK / Frederick W.F. Foulds -- Alpine "hunters" from the middle mesolithic to early neolithic : a contribution to the study of lithic industries from two high altitude loci (Gerland and La Mare) in Vercors, northern French Alps / Alexandre Angelin -- The phenomenon of mesolithic settlement within the Bohemian paradise area Czech Republic / Petr ¿ida, Marta Moravcová, Dagmar Vokounová Franzeová and Jan Prostredník -- Palaeoenvironments and prehistoric interactions in northern France from the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Weichselian middle pleniglacial / Jean-Luc Locht, Emilie Goval, Pierre Antoine, Sylvie Coutard, Patrick Auguste, Clément Paris and David Hérisson -- .

A key sequence for the early holocene in Southwest France / Nicolas Valdeyron, Aureade Henry, Benjamin Marquebielle, Bruno Bosc-Zanardo, Bernard Gassin, Sylvene Michel and Sylvie Philibert -- Human craniometric variation supports discontinuity at the late glacial maximum in Europe / Ciarán Brewster, Ron Pinhasi and Christopher M…