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

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This book includes papers from the 2011 conference marking ten years of Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO, University of Southampton). Cover Copyright Introduction Ex Oriente Lux: a Re-Evaluation of the Lower Palaeolithic of Central andEastern Europe The Earliest Middle Stone Age of Northern South Africa: The Cave ofHearths and Bushman Rock Shelter Quaternary Environments and Archaeology of Jersey: A NewMultidisciplinary project looking at the early prehistoric occupation of theEnglish Channel Region Interglacial Neanderthal Ecology: evidence of absence? Neanderthal land-use and related tool-kits at the MIS 5/4 boundary in theSouth-East portion of the French Massif Central Neanderthals 2.0? Evidence for expanded social networks, ethnic diversityand encultured landscapes in the Late Middle Palaeolithic Changing Scales of Obsidian Movement and Social Networking Analyzing the Child Burials of Upper Palaeolithic Europe Ancient Magdalenian of the French Massif Central revisited: a reappraisalof unit F2 of the Rond du Barry cave (Polignac, Haute-Loire, France) The Contexts of Palaeolithic Figural Art: Performativity, Fragmentationand Dividuality Differentiating French Magdalenian portable art assemblages: newanalyses of low-relief technologies on antler Scatters, Patches, and Palimpsests: Solving the Contemporaneity Problem People, places and things: understanding Lateglacial personhood throughmobility and exchange CAHO 10 Closing Words