Dibble, Harold Lewis.

The Middle Paleolithic : adaptation, behavior and variability / Harold L. Dibble, Paul Mellars, editors. - Philadelphia : University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1992. - x, 216p. : ill., diagrs., drawings, maps ; 29cm. - University Museum monograph University Museum symposium series . - 72 4 .

Papers originally presented in a symposium on the Middle Paleolithic of Europe and the Near East, at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 1989.

Contains bibl. references.

Contents: On assemblage variability in the Middle Paleolithic of Western Europe / Harold L. Dibble and Nicolas Rolland; Technological change in the Mousterian of Southwest France / Paul Mellars; The significance of variability in the European Mousterian / Marcel Otte; The place of the Mousterian of the Charente in the Middle Paleolithic of Southwest France / André Debénath; Middle Paleolithic settlement in Northern France / Alain Truffreau; Raw material and technological studies of the Quina Mousterian in Perigord / Alain Turq; Subsistence and behavioral patterns of some Middle Paleolithic local groups / Catherine Farizy and Francine David; Approaches to the Middle Paleolithic in Northern Spain / Victoria Cabrera Valdes and Federico Bernaldo de Quirós; Mousterian facies in space: new data from Morín Level 16 / Leslie G. Freeman; Typological variability in the Levantine Middle Paleolithic / Anthony E. Marks; Transhumance during the Late Levantine Mousterian / Donald O. Henry; Insights into Levantine Middle Paleolithic cultural variability / Ofer Bar-Yosef and Lilliane Meignen; Continuity or replacement?: putting modern human origins in an evolutionary context / Geoffrey A. Clark; The significance of Middle Paleolithic water holes found at Bir Sahara in the Western Desert of Egypt / Amy L. Campbell.

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