World at 18 000 BP

Olga Soffer is Professor Emerita at the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her primary areas of research interest combine anthropology, archaeology, and palaeontology.Clive Gamble is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton, UK. Gamble’s main research interests are the archaeology of human origins, the social life of the earliest humans and the timing of their global colonisation.

• Contents of Volume 2: low latitudes Introduction: Pleistocene polyphony: the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum 1. Living in the last high glacial – an interdisciplinary challenge Northwestern Europe 2. The last Pleniglacial in the Paris Basin (22500–17000 BP) 3. The northwestern European Plain around 18000 BP 4. The last Pleniglacial in the south of France (24000–14000 years ago) Southern Europe 5. The Last Glacial Maximum in Cantabrian Spain: the Solutrean 6. The Portuguese Estremadura at 18000 BP: the Solutrean 7. Community and change in Italy at the Last Glacial Maximum 8. The Balkans at 18000 BP: the view from Epirus Central and Eastern Europe 9. Germany at 18000 BP 10. Moravia during the Upper Pleniglacial 11. Northern Central Europe c. 18000 BP 12. The Russian Plain at the Last Glacial Maximum Eastern Eurasia and the New World 13. Environmental conditions and human occupation of northern Eurasia during the Late Valdai 14. Central Asian hunter–gatherers at the Last Glacial Maximum 15. China at the Last Glacial Maximum 16. Japan and Korea at 18000 BP 17. New World palaeoecology at the Last Glacial Maximum and the implications for New World prehistory Afterword: Minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18 K and otherwise