The following volume is available in the IPA catalogue at:
http://www.ipa.min-cultura.pt/publicacoes/pubs_editedJoão Zilhão e Francesco d'Errico, eds. Trabalhos de Arqueologia 33 -
The Chronology of the Aurignacian and of the Transitional
Technocomplexes. Dating, Stratigraphies, Cultural Implications.
Proceedings of Symposium 6.1 of the XIVth Congress of the UISPP.
2003, 356 p. 28,00 € 972-8662-15-7 1,235 kg.
My order from IPA arrived in the mail today. Delivery was relatively swift. I expect it will not have everything I want to know about Aurignacian, but it should contain everything I (and probably a few others) NEED to know.
Contents:
Preface (F. d'Errico & Joao Zilhao);
"The Aurignacian"? Some Thoughts (L.G. Straus);
Constitution of the Aurignacian through Eurasia (M. Otte & J. Kozlowski);
Europe during the early Upper Palaeolithic (40 000-30 000 BP): a synthesis (F. Djindjian, J. Kozlowski & F. Bazile);
"Standardization" in Upper Paleolithic ornaments at the coastal sites of Riparo Mochi and Ucagizli cave (M.C. Stiner);
In what sense is the Levantine Initial Upper Paleolithic a "transitional" industry? (S.L. Kuhn);
The chronological and industrial variability of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in eastern Europe (V. Chabai);
The most ancient sites of Kostenki in the context of the Initial Upper Paleolithic of northern Eurasia (A. Sinitsyn);
Mamontovaya Kurya: an enigmatic, nearly 40 000 years old Paleolithic site in the Russian Arctic (J.I. Svendsen & P. Pavlov);
The Bohunician and the Aurignacian (J. Svoboda);
The early Upper Paleolithic occupations of Willendorf II (Lower Austria): a contribution to the chronostratigraphic and cultural context of the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in Central Europe (P. Haesaerts & N. Teyssandier);
The cultural context of the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura (M. Bolus);
Chronostratigraphy and Archaeological Context of the Aurignacian Deposits at Geissenkloesterle (N.J. Conard, G. Dippon & P. Goldberg);
Defining the earliest Aurignacian in the Swabian Alp: the relevance of the technological study of the Geissenkloesterle (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) lithic and organic productions (N. Teyssander & D. Liolios);
Patterns of subsistence and settlement during the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura, Germany (L. Niven);
New evidence for the chronology of the Aurignacian and the question of Pleniglacial settlement in western central Europe (T. Terberger & M. Street);
Lithic taphonomy of the Chatelperronian/Aurignacian interstratifications in Roc de Combe and Le Paige (Lot, France)
(J.-G. Bordes);
Many awls in our argument. Bone tool manufacture and use in the Chatelperronian and Aurignacian levels of the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure (F. d'Errico, M. Julien, D. Liolios, M. Vanhaeren & D. Baffier);
Did they meet or not? Observations on Chatelperronian and Aurignacian settlement patterns in eastern Europe (H. Floss);
The Chatelperronian of Grotte XVI, Cenac-et-Saint-Julien (Dordogne, France) (G. Lucas, J.-Ph. Rigaud, J. Simek & M. Soressi);
Magnetic Susceptibility analysis of sediments in the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition for two cave sites in northern Spain (F. Harrold, B. Ellwood, P. Thacker & S Benoist);
The chronology of the Aurignacian and Transitional technocomplexes. Where do we stand? (J. Zilhao & F. d'Errico);
List of Contributors.
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It looks very informative,
Dar
