1. Introduction: Goals and challenges (Elena A. A. Garcea)
2. Palaeoenvironments of eastern North Africa and the Levant in the
late Pleistocene (Jennifer R. Smith)
3. A new luminescence chronology for Aterian cave sites on the
Atlantic coast of Morocco (Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Simon N.
Collcutt, Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Laine Clark-Balzan,
Mohamed Abdeljalil El Hajraoui, Roland Nespoulet and André
Debénath)
4. The spread of Aterian peoples in North Africa (Elena A. A.
Garcea)
5. The lower and upper later Stone Age of North Africa (Elena A. A.
Garcea)
6. Middle and upper Palaeolithic in the Egyptian Nile Valley
(Pierre M. Vermeersch)
7. Late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the Nile Valley of Nubia
and upper Egypt (Romuald Schild and Fred Wendorf)
8. Neanderthals and early homo sapiens in the Levant (John J.
Shea)
9. The Levantine upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic (Ofer
Bar-Yosef and Anna Belfer-Cohen)
10. The later Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant: a brief history
and review (Brian Boyd)
11. Bridging the gap between in and out of Africa (Elena A. A.
Garcea)
South-Eastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130,000 and 10,000 Years Ago is a handsome, geographically comprehensive, and practical collection of papers that encompasses interdisciplinary studies on the current human evolution debate, prehistoric archaeology, and palaeoenvironment. The coverage is regional and the scope of the book balanced across the south-eastern Mediterranean region. This nicely produced volume concerning the evolution of our species 100,000 years ago, will appeal to a cross-disciplinary readership of scholars, and students with some basic knowledge who wish to study the topic in more detail; as well as to various specialists due to the quality of its papers, its diversity of approaches, and its wide range of data.' -- Archaeological Review from Cambridge Archaeological Review from Cambridge ...this is a very up-to-date, well-illustrated, and useful work in the grand tradition of mises a jour...it is a great source of information, references, and teaching material on this crucial area at the crossroads between Africa, Europe, and Asia.' -- Journal of Anthropological Research Journal of Anthropological Research
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