From Kostenki to Clovis

I Introduction.- 1 - Introduction: Fluted Points and Female Figurines-Understanding Late Paleolithic People of the New and Old Worlds.- 2 - The Environment and Human Adaptation Systems in Prehistoric Times.- II The Upper Paleolithic Record.- 3 - Radiocarbon Chronology for the Upper Paleolithic Sites on the East European Plain.- 4 - Upper Paleolithic Adaptations in Central and Eastern Europe and Man-Mammoth Interactions.- 5 - The Kostenki-Avdeevo Archaeological Culture and the Willendorf-Pavlov-Kostenki-Avdeevo Cultural Unity.- 6 - Subsistence Practices of Late Paleolithic Groups along the Dnestr River and Its Tributaries.- 7 - Two Examples of Terminal Paleolithic Adaptations.- 8 - Bones for Stones: Considerations of Analogues for Features Found on the Central Russian Plain.- 9 - Amvrosievka: A Unique Upper Paleolithic Site in Eastern Europe.- 10 - Determining Upper Paleolithic Historicocultural Regions: A Case Study.- 11 - Criteria for Estimating the Duration of Occupation at Paleolithic Sites: An Example from Kamennaia Balka II.- 12 - The Technology and Function of Tools in the Context of Regional Adaptations: A Case Study of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic of the Northwestern Black Sea Region.- 13 - Man and Nature in Northeastern Europe in the Middle and Late Pleistocene.- 14 - The Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary: Environmental Processes and Social Adaptations.- III The Paleo-Indian Record.- 15 - The Ones that Will Not Go Away: A Biased View of Pre-Clovis Populations in the New World.- 16 - Clovis-Folsom Geochronology and Climatic Change.- 17 - North American High Plains Paleo-Indian Hunting Strategies and Weaponry Assemblages.- 18 - Paleo-Indian Flaked Stone Technology in the North American High Plains.- 19 - Paleo-IndianArchaeology in the High Plains and Rocky Mountains of Montana.- 20 - Fluted Points in the Eastern Forests.- 21 - Is There a Clovis Adaptation?.- IV Interpreting the Records: Some Caveats.- 22 - The Center at the Edge.