Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology

Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction to short-term occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology.- Part 1. Methodological and theoretical approaches to short-term occupations.- Chapter 2. The use of lithic assemblages for the definition of short-term occupations in hunter- gatherer prehistory.- Chapter 3. Inside the palimpsest: identifying short occupations in the 497D level of Cova Gran (Iberia).- Part 2. Settlement dynamics in Western-Central Europe.- Chapter 4. Short-term occupations during the Early Middle Paleolithic in Eastern Germany.- Chapter 5. Models of raw materials exploitation as an indicators of Middle Paleolithic mobility. Case studies from uplands of northern Central Europe.- Chapter 6. Take shelter! Short-term occupations of the Late Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic in the French far West.- Part 3. Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and carnivore dens.- Chapter 7. Occupying cave-sites: A case study from Azokh 1 Cave (Southern Caucasus).- Chapter 8. Short-term Neanderthal occupations and carnivores in the North-East of Iberian Peninsula.- Part 4. Archaeological perspectives from the western Mediterranean.- Chapter 9. A snapshot of a short occupation in the Abric Romaní rock shelter: archaeo-level Oa.- Chapter 10. A high-temporal resolution zooarchaeological approach to Neanderthal subsistence strategies on the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula: El Salt Stratigraphic Unit Xa (Alicante, Spain).- Index.