Contents

• Introduction : the study of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunting /Harvey M. Bricker, Paul Mellars, and Gail Larsen Peterkin
• Weapon technology, prey size selection, and hunting methods in modern hunter-gatherers : implications for hunting in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic /Steven E. Churchill
• Mousterian technology as adaptive response : a case study /Steven L. Kuhn
• Early upper Paleolithic approaches to bone and antler projectile technology /Heidi Knecht
• Lithic and organic hunting technology in the French upper Palaeolithic /Gail Larsen Peterkin
• Variability and function among gravette points from southwestern France / Francis B. Harrold
• Upper Paleolithic hunting tactics and weapons in western Europe /Lawrence Guy Straus
• The development of the bow in western Europe : a technological and functional perspective /Christopher A. Bergman
• Small animal exploitation and its relation to hunting, scavenging, and gathering in the Italian Mousterian /Mary C. Stiner
• Hunting in the Gravettian : an examination of evidence from southwestern France / Anne Pike-Tay and Harvey M. Bricker
• Applied skeletochronology : the horse as human prey during the Pleniglacial in southwestern France /Ariane Burke
• Upper Palaeolithic procurement and processing strategies in southwest France /Katherine V. Boyle
• Simulating mammoth hunting and extinction : implications for the late Pleistocene of the central Russian plain /Steven Mithen
• Season and reason : the case for a regional interpretation of Mesolithic settlement patterns /Peter Rowley-Conwy
• Lithic use-wear evidence for hunting by Neandertals and early modern humans from the Levantine Mousterian /John J. Shea
• Zarzian microliths from Warwasi Rockshelter, Iran : scalene triangles as arrow components /Deborah I. Olszewski
• Variability in hunter-gatherer seasonal mobility in the southern Levant : from the Mousterian to the Natufian /Daniel E. Lieberman
• The human food niche in the Levant over the past 150, 000 years /Michael P. Neeley and Geoffrey A. Clark
• Issues in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research /T. Douglas Price
• Comments on this volume and recent research by scholars in non-anglophone Europe /Marcel Otte