1st Edition
The World at 18 000 BP Volume 1, High Latitudes
Contents of Volume 2: low latitudes
Introduction: Pleistocene polyphony: the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum
Clive Gamble and Olga Soffer
1. Living in the last high glacial – an interdisciplinary challenge
T.H. van Andel
Northwestern Europe
2. The last Pleniglacial in the Paris Basin (22500–17000 BP)
Beatrice Schmider
3. The northwestern European Plain around 18000 BP
Marcel Otte
4. The last Pleniglacial in the south of France (24000–14000 years ago)
Jean-Philippe Rigaud and Jan F. Simek
Southern Europe
5. The Last Glacial Maximum in Cantabrian Spain: the Solutrean
Lawrence Guy Straus
6. The Portuguese Estremadura at 18000 BP: the Solutrean
Joao Zilhao
7. Community and change in Italy at the Last Glacial Maximum
Margherita Mussi
8. The Balkans at 18000 BP: the view from Epirus
Geoff Bailey and Clive Gamble
Central and Eastern Europe
9. Germany at 18000 BP
Gerd-C. Weniger
10. Moravia during the Upper Pleniglacial
Jiri Svoboda
11. Northern Central Europe c. 18000 BP
Janusz K. Kozlowski
12. The Russian Plain at the Last Glacial Maximum
Olga Soffer
Eastern Eurasia and the New World
13. Environmental conditions and human occupation of northern Eurasia during the Late Valdai
A.A. Velichko and E.I. Kurenkova
14. Central Asian hunter–gatherers at the Last Glacial Maximum
Richard S. Davis
15. China at the Last Glacial Maximum
Chun Chen and John W. Olsen
16. Japan and Korea at 18000 BP
T.E.G. Reynolds and S.C. Kaner
17. New World palaeoecology at the Last Glacial Maximum and the implications for New World prehistory
George C. Frison and Danny N. Walker
Afterword: Minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18 K and otherwise
H. Martin Wobst
Biography
Olga Soffer is Professor Emerita at the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her primary areas of research interest combine anthropology, archaeology, and palaeontology.
Clive Gamble is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton, UK. Gamble’s main research interests are the archaeology of human origins, the social life of the earliest humans and the timing of their global colonisation.
