Metin I. Eren is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. He has a degree in Anthropology from Harvard College (A.B.), and as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow received degrees in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University (M.A., Ph.D.), as well as in Experimental Archaeology from the University of Exeter, U.K. (M.A.). He is an experienced flintknapper and has conducted research in, and published numerous papers on, the Stone Age of North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

• Chapter 1 On Younger Dryas Climate Change as a Causal Determinate of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Culture Change, Metin I. Eren; Chapter 2 Climate, Technology, and Society During the Terminal Pleistocene Period in South America, Tom D. Dillehay; Chapter 3 The Human Colonization of the High Andes and Southern South America During the Cold Pulses of the Late Pleistocene, Luis Alberto Borrero; Chapter 4 Kelp Forests, Coastal Migrations, and the Younger Dryas: Late Pleistocene and Earliest Holocene Human Settlement, Subsistence, and Ecology on California's Channel Islands, Torben C. Rick, Jon M. Erlandson; Chapter 5 Evaluating the Effect of the Younger Dryas on Human Population Histories in the Southeastern United States, Scott C. Meeks, David G. Anderson; Chapter 6 Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains of Western North America, Jason M. LaBelle; Chapter 7 Coping with the Younger Dryas in the Heart of Europe, Michael Jochim; Chapter 8 Europe in the Younger Dryas: Animal Resources, Settlement, and Funerary Behavior, Stella M. Blockley, Clive S. Gamble; Chapter 9 The Younger Dryas and Hunter-Gatherer Transitions to Food Production in the Near East, Cheryl A. Makarewicz; Chapter 10 The Younger Dryas in Arid Northest Asia, Joshua Wright, Lisa Janz; Chapter 11 Looking for the Younger Dryas, David J. Meltzer, Ofer Bar-Yosef;