Roebroeks Wil, Mussi Margherita, Svodoba Jiri, Fennema Kelly (eds.) Hunters of the Golden Age. The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia 30,000-20,000 BP

Leiden: University of Leiden, 1999. — 410 p. — (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 31). — ISSN: 0169-7447; ISBN: 90-73368-16-2.The period 30,000 to 20,000 BP can be aptly called the `Golden Age’ of hunter gatherers for a variety of reasons, spelled out in great detail by the 37 contributors to this impressive volume. In this period we find the first unambiguous burials after the Middle Palaeolithic, the earliest bona fide habitation structures and an unprecedented sophistication in raw material requirements which involved provisioning strategies over hundreds of kilometres. The volume deals at great length with many facets of the complex record of the period, with contributions on ecology, dating and the physical anthropology of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic population preceding a large number of papers dealing with archaeological issues, organized in a topical and a regional presentation.Margherita Mussi, Wil Roebroeks and Jiri Svoboda. Hunters of the Golden Age: an introduction.
Dale Guthrie and Thijs van Kolfschoten. Neither warm and moist, nor cold and arid: the ecology of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic.
Paul Pettitt. Chronology of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic: the radiocarbon evidence.
Steven Churchill, Vincenzo Formicola, Trenton Holliday, Brigitte Holt and Betsy Schumann. The Upper Palaeolithic population of Europe in an evolutionary perspective.
Olga Soffer. Gravettian technologies in social contexts.
Wil Roebroeks and Raymond Corbey. Periodisations and double standards in the study of the Palaeolithic.
Jean Clottes. Art between 30,000 and 20,000 BP.
Margherita Mussi, Jacques Cinq-Mars and Pierre Bolduc. Echoes from the mammoth steppe: the case of the Balzi Rossi.
Ludmila Iakovleva. The gravettian art of Eastern Europe as exemplified in the figurative art of Kostenki 1.
Yvette Taborin. Gravettian body ornaments in Western and Central Europe.
Martin Oliva. The Brno II Upper Palaeolithic burial.
Lars Larsson. Plenty of mammoths but no humans? Scandinavia during the Middle Weichselian.
Pavel Pavlov and Svein Indrelid. Human occupation in Northeastern Europe during the period 35,000 - 18,000 BP.
Sergey Vasil'ev. The Siberian mosaic: Upper Palaeolithic adaptations and change before the Last Glacial Maximum.
Jiri Svoboda, Bohuslav Klfma, Lenka Jarosova and Petr Skrdla. The Gravettian in Moravia: climate, behaviour and technological complexity.
Martin Oliva. Some thoughts on pavlovian adaptations and their alternatives.
Viola Dobosi. Interior parts of the Carpathian Basin between 30,000 and 20,000 BP.
Anta Montet-White. A scarcity of MUP sites in the Sava Valley, stratigraphic hiatus and/or depopulation.
Joachim Hahn. The Gravettian in Southwest Germany - environment and economy.
Anne Scheer. The Gravettian in Southwest Germany: stylistic features, raw material resources and settlement patterns.
Gerhard Bosinski. The period 30,000 - 20,000 BP in the Rhineland.
Martin Street and Thomas Terberger. The German Upper Palaeolithic 35,000 - 15,000 BP. New dates and insights with emphasis on the Rhineland.
Wil Roebroeks. A marginal matter: the human occupation of northwestern Europe - 30,000 to 20,000 BP.
Francois Djindjian. The Mid Upper Palaeolithic (30,000 to 20,000 BP) in France.
Jean-Philippe Rigaud. Human adaptation to the climatic deterioration of the last Pleniglacial in southwestern France (30,000 - 20,000 BP).
Joäo Zilhäo. Nature and culture in Portugal from 30,000 to 20,000 BP.
Margherita Mussi. Heading south: the gravettian colonisation of Italy.
Catherine Pedes. Greece, 30,000 - 20,000 BP.