More than 40years ago Kent Flannery coined the term Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) in
reference to a broadening of the subsistence base of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in …

Recent research in northern Spain has revealed the disappearance of Neanderthal
populations in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region a few millennia earlier than in eastern and …

A growing body of archeological evidence suggests that the dramatic climatic events of the
Last Glacial Maximum in Europe triggered important changes in foraging behavior, involving …

This article presents the initial results from the S2AGES data base of calibrated radiocarbon
estimates from western Europe in the period 25,000–10,000 years ago. Our aim is to present …

The study of European prehistory has been revolutionized in recent years by the rapid
growth rate of archeological discovery, advances in dating methods and the application of …

In this volume, the founder of processual archaeology, Lewis R. Binford collects and
comments on the twenty-eight substantive papers published in the 1980's, the third in his set …

Despite more than a century of detailed investigation of the Magdalenian period in Northern
Iberia, our understanding of the diets during this period is limited. Methodologies for the …

The early peopling of the New World has been a topic of intense research since the early
twentieth century. We contend that the exclusive focus of research on a Beringian entry point …

This paper critically examines previous statements concerning the nature of the
Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition in Western Europe. Mellars's overview of the transition in …

During the past two decades or so, the tremendous contribution to knowledge that can be
made through the analysis of vertebrate faunas from archaeological sites has been clearly …