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.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.

• Contents of Volume 1: high latitudes Introduction: Pleistocene polyphone: the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum 1. The distribution of human settlement in the extra-tropical Old World: 24000 – 15000 BP North Africa and the Middle East 2. North Africa at 18,000 BP 3. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Mediterranean Levant 4. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Jordanian Desert 5. Kebaran occupation at the Last Glacial Maximum in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley Sub-Saharan Africa 6. The Glacial Maximum in tropical Africa: 22 000–12 000 BP 7. Changes in the archaeological record in South Africa at 18000 BP 8. A palaeoecological model for archaeological site distribution in southern Africa during the Upper Pleniglacial and Late Glacial 9. Zimbabwe at 18000 BP 10. A view from the south: southern Africa before, during, and after the Last Glacial Maximum Southern Asia, Sunda and Australia 11. South Asian climate and environment at c. 18000 BP 12. Hunter–gatherers of the terminal Pleistocene in Uttar Pradesh, India 13. From Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene in Sundaland 14. From Kakadu to Kutikina: the southern continent at 18000 years ago 15. Environmental history in southwestern New South Wales during the Late Pleistocene Afterword: Minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18K and otherwise

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.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.

• Contents of Volume 1: high latitudes Introduction: Pleistocene polyphone: the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum 1. The distribution of human settlement in the extra-tropical Old World: 24000 – 15000 BP North Africa and the Middle East 2. North Africa at 18,000 BP 3. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Mediterranean Levant 4. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Jordanian Desert 5. Kebaran occupation at the Last Glacial Maximum in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley Sub-Saharan Africa 6. The Glacial Maximum in tropical Africa: 22 000–12 000 BP 7. Changes in the archaeological record in South Africa at 18000 BP 8. A palaeoecological model for archaeological site distribution in southern Africa during the Upper Pleniglacial and Late Glacial 9. Zimbabwe at 18000 BP 10. A view from the south: southern Africa before, during, and after the Last Glacial Maximum Southern Asia, Sunda and Australia 11. South Asian climate and environment at c. 18000 BP 12. Hunter–gatherers of the terminal Pleistocene in Uttar Pradesh, India 13. From Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene in Sundaland 14. From Kakadu to Kutikina: the southern continent at 18000 years ago 15. Environmental history in southwestern New South Wales during the Late Pleistocene Afterword: Minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18K and otherwise

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.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.

• Contents of Volume 1: high latitudes Introduction: Pleistocene polyphone: the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum 1. The distribution of human settlement in the extra-tropical Old World: 24000 – 15000 BP North Africa and the Middle East 2. North Africa at 18,000 BP 3. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Mediterranean Levant 4. The Last Glacial Maximum in the Jordanian Desert 5. Kebaran occupation at the Last Glacial Maximum in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley Sub-Saharan Africa 6. The Glacial Maximum in tropical Africa: 22 000–12 000 BP 7. Changes in the archaeological record in South Africa at 18000 BP 8. A palaeoecological model for archaeological site distribution in southern Africa during the Upper Pleniglacial and Late Glacial 9. Zimbabwe at 18000 BP 10. A view from the south: southern Africa before, during, and after the Last Glacial Maximum Southern Asia, Sunda and Australia 11. South Asian climate and environment at c. 18000 BP 12. Hunter–gatherers of the terminal Pleistocene in Uttar Pradesh, India 13. From Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene in Sundaland 14. From Kakadu to Kutikina: the southern continent at 18000 years ago 15. Environmental history in southwestern New South Wales during the Late Pleistocene Afterword: Minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18K and otherwise