Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology

PART I The Chronological Framework: Long Time Sequences

1. When Did the Middle Paleolithic Begin?

Jürgen Richter

2. Neanderthals and Monkeys in the Würmian of Central Europe - the Middle Paleolithic Site of Hunas, Southern Germany

W. Rosendahl, D. Ambros, B. Hilpert, U. Hambach, K.W. Alt, M. Knipping, L. Reisch, and B. Kaulich+

3. Neanderthals in the Cold: Middle Paleolithic Sites from the Open-Cast Mine of Garzweiler, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)

Thorsten Uthmeier, Holger Kels, Wolfgang Schirmer, and Utz Böhner

4. Neanderthal Occupation in the Verdon Valley (Haute-Provence, Southeastern France)

J. Gagnepain and C. Gaillard

5. Dating Small Heated Flint Artifacts: A New Thermoluminescence Technique

Daniel Richter

PART II Neanderthal Subsistence and Raw Material Procurement

6. On Neanderthal Subsistence in Last Interglacial Forested Environments in Northern Europe

S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser and W. Roebroeks

H. Bocherens

8. Management of Paleoenvironmental Resources and Raw Materials Exploitation at the Middle Paleolithic Site of Oscurusciuto (Ginosa, Southern Italy): Units 1 and 4

P. Boscato, P. Gambassini, F. Ranaldo, and A. Ronchitelli

PART III Neanderthal Cognition and Technological Knowledge

9. Neanderthal Technoeconomics. An Assessment and Suggestions for Future Developments

S.L. Kuhn

10. Blade Production in the Early Phase of the Middle Paleolithic at Bapaume-les Osiers (Pas-de-Calais, France)

H. Koehler

11. The Lithic Production System of the Middle Paleolithic Settlement of Le Fond des Blanchards at Gron (Yonne, France)

V. Lhomme, E. Nicoud, M. Pagli, A. Coudenneau, and R. Rocca

12. Technological Analysis of the Bifacial Tools from La Micoque and its Implications

G. Rosendahl

13. Handedness in Neanderthals

N.T. Uomini

PART IV Neanderthal social organization and land use

14. The Social and Material Life of Neanderthals

C. Gamble

15. Stability in the Intermittence

A. Lourdeau

16. Territorial Mobility of Neanderthal Groups - a Case Study from Level M of Abric Romaní (Capellades, Barcelona, Spain)

M.C. Fernández-Laso, M.G. Chacón Navarro, M.D. García-Antón, and F. Rivals

17. Level G of Las Fuentes de San Cristóbal (Southern Pyrenees, Spain)

M.D. García-Antón, L. Menéndez Granda, and M.G. Chacón Navarro

PART V Cultural Adaptation among the Last Neanderthals

18. The Demise of the Neanderthal Cultural Niche and the Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern Germany

N.J. Conard

19. Level 14 of Bajondillo Cave and the End of the Middle Paleolithic in the South of the Iberian Peninsula

M. Cortés Sánchez, J.F. Gibaja Bao, and M.D. Simón Vallejo

20. The End of the Middle Paleolithic in the Italian Alps

M. Peresani

21. Technological Behavior and Mobility of Human Groups Deduced from Lithic Assemblages in the Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene of the Middle Rhône Valley (France)

M.-H. Moncel