Unravelling the Palaeolithic: Ten years of research at the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO, University of Southampton)

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Papers from the 2011 conference marking ten years of Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO, University of Southampton). Contents: Introduction (Clive Gamble); 1) Lower Palaeolithic of Central and Eastern Europe: Critical Re-evaluation of the Current State of Knowledge (Iza Romanowska); 2) The Earliest Middle Stone Age of Northern South Africa: The Cave of Hearths and Bushman Rock Shelter (David Underhill); 3) Quaternary Environments and Archaeology of Jersey: A New Multidisciplinary project looking at the early prehistoric occupation of the English Channel Region (Matt Pope et al.); 4) Interglacial Neanderthal Ecology: evidence of absence? (Rachel Bynoe); 5) Neanderthal land-use and related tool-kits at the MIS 5/4 boundary in the South-East portion of the French Massif Central (Jean-Paul Raynal et al.); 6) Creating Country: Late Middle Palaeolithic Landscape Enculturation (Rebecca Wragg Sykes); 7) Changing Scales of Obsidian Movement and Social Networking (Theodora Moutsiou); 8) Analyzing the Child Burials of Upper Palaeolithic Europe (Jessica Cooney); 9) Ancient Magdalenian of the French Massif Central revisited: a reappraisal of unit F2 of the Rond du Barry cave (Polignac, Haute-Loire, France) (Audrey Lafarge et al.); 10) The social contexts of Palaeolithic Figural Art: Performativity, Materialisation and Fragmentation (Liliane Janik); 11) Differentiating French Magdalenian portable art assemblages: new analyses of low-relief technologies on antler (Rebecca Farbstein); 12) Scatters, Patches, and Palimpsests: Solving the Contemporaneity Problem (Matt Grove); 13) People, places and things: understanding Lateglacial personhood through mobility and exchange (Fotini Kofido); 14) CAHO 10 Closing words (John McNabb and William Davies).


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Karen Ruebens, Iza Romanowska and Rachel Bynoe