Transitions before the transition : evolution and stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age / edited by Erella Hovers and Steven L. Kuhn.

Two symposia "The Middle Paleolithic: climbing uphill slowly or going nowhere fast?" and "Stability and change in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age" were held in Denver during the 2002 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twenty-four papers were presented in the two symposia. This volume came from the symposia--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On naming things : behavioral changes in the later middle to earlier late Pleistocene, viewed from the eastern Sahara / M.R. Kleindienst -- Observations on systematics in Paleolithic archaeology / Geoffrey A. Clark and Julien Riel-Salvatore -- Testing retouched flake tool standardization during the Middle Paleolithic : patterns and implications / Gilliane Monnier -- Diversity of lithic production systems during the Middle Paleolithic in France : are there any chronological trends? / Anne Delagnes and Liliane Meignen -- Trajectories of change in the Middle Paleolithic of Italy / Steven L. Kuhn -- Stasis and change during the Crimean Middle Paleolithic / Anthony E. Marks and Victor P. Chabai -- Monospecific or species-dominated faunal assemblages during the Middle Paleolithic in Europe / Sabine Gaudzinski -- Middle Paleolithic settlement patterns in the Levant / Liliane Meignen [and others] -- Housekeeping, Neandertal-style : hearth placement and midden formation in Kebara Cave (Israel) / John D. Speth -- The Middle Paleolithic of the Levant : recursion and convergence / John J. Shea -- Middle Paleolithic subsistence ecology in the Mediterranean region / Mary C. Stiner -- Projectile technologies of the African MSA : implications for modern human origins / Alison S. Brooks [and others] -- From Acheulean to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya / Sally McBrearty and Christian Tryon -- The use of space in the late Middle Stone Age of Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa : was there a shift to modern behavior? / Lyn Wadley -- "Now you see it, now you don't" -- modern human behavior in the Middle Paleolithic / Erella Hovers and Anna Belfer-Cohen -- Between observations and models : an eclectic view of Middle Paleolithic archaeology / Ofer Bar-Yosef.