Intro
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Contents
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Contributors
Part I: "Top-Down" Approaches
Refloating the Aegean Lost Dryland: An Affordance-Based GIS Approach to Explore the Interaction Between Hominins and the Palaeolandscape
1 Introduction
2 An Affordance-Based Methodological Approach to Explore Hominin-Landscape Interaction
3 Engaging the Palaeolandscape - The Complex Topography Concept (STEP 2 Component 1)
4 Engaging the Hominin Factor - The Concept of Affordances (STEP 2 Component 2)

5 Adding More Affordance Variables: The Navigation Potential Over the Aegean Palaeolandscape
6 Results and Discussion - Humanising the Past Landscape
6.1 The Northern Aegean Continental Shelf
6.2 The Southern Part of the Cycladic Plateau and Its Westward Extension to the Greek Mainland
6.3 The Sperchios River Basin and the North Euboea Gulf (Central Greece)
6.4 The Greek Islands Along the Aegean Coasts of Turkey
7 Concluding Remarks
References
The Last of Them: Investigating the Palaeogeography of the Last Neanderthals in Europe (Marine Isotopic Stage 3)

1 Introduction
1.1 The Specific Climatic Context of MIS 3
1.2 New Tools, New Interpretive Framework and New Data Resolutions
2 Material and Methods
2.1 Sample
2.1.1 Spatio-temporal Boundaries
2.1.2 Elimination of Transitional Industries
2.2 Data Compilation
2.3 Site Locations
2.4 Data Pre-selection
2.5 Chronological Modelling
2.6 Data Scoring and Uncertainty Estimates
2.7 Mapping the Distribution of GS/GI Sites
3 Results
3.1 General Dataset
3.2 Data Selection
3.3 Data Distribution: Contrasting GS and GI
4 Discussion

4.1 Testing the Impact of Research and Method Bias on Data Distribution
4.2 Chronological Distribution of Data
4.3 Spatial Distribution of Data
4.4 Archaeological Versus Biological Data
4.5 The Importance of a Taphonomic Perspective: Defining a Taphonomy of Archaeological Data
5 Conclusions
Appendix
References
Going New Places: Dispersal and Establishment of the Aurignacian Technocomplex in Europe During the Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3)
1 Introduction
1.1 First AMHs in Europe and the Aurignacian Technocomplex
2 Materials and Methods

2.1 The Archaeological Database
2.2 Palaeoenvironmental Data
2.3 Age Modelling Using GICC05 Events
2.4 Layers Conditions Classification and Reliability Score
3 Results
3.1 Classification
3.2 Chronology
4 Discussion
4.1 The Aurignacian from Start to finish
4.2 Palaeogeography of the Aurignacian Technocomplex
4.3 Impacts of MIS 3 Millennial-Scale Variations on the AMH Spatial Behaviour
4.4 Zones of Interest
5 Conclusion
Appendix
References
The Impact of Magdalenian Hunter-Gatherers on Their Environment
1 Introduction