Prehistory is, in no small way, a chronicle of movement. Populations expand and contract,
certain disperse irreversibly; profoundly recasting the cultural landscape in their wake …

Twenty‐five years ago, the Middle‐to‐Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe could be
represented as a straightforward process subsuming both the emergence of symbolic …

In central Europe, the Neolithic is defined as the point when an economy largely based on
agriculture and animal husbandry replaces hunting and gathering. This shift is also …

For the better part of the last quarter of a century, the “Human Revolution” paradigm both
framed and inspired most research on modern human origins. It brought together genetic …

Abstract Supporting Assimilation views of Neandertal/modern human interaction,
chronostratigraphic reasoning indicates that the “transitional” industries of Europe predate …

Europe in the Middle Palaeolithic would have been an unfamiliar world. The landscapes
which we reconstruct for this period seem almost alien–often shrouded in ice, occupied by …

The Neolithic has traditionally been characterized by the arrival of Near Eastern farmers to
Europe, replacing the indigenous foragers. This view postulates a cultural, genetic and …

Past environment and human interactions are the subject of current climate and
archaeological research alike, aiming at a better understanding of how these domains have …

The nature of the Lower–Middle Palaeolithic transition has been one of the most debated
questions in early Prehistory since the mid-20th century. The root of these debates lies …

The proceedings of the conference “150 years of Neanderthal discoveries–early Europeans:
continuity and discontinuity” reflect the current state of the art as regards Neanderthals and …