Description

This new journal will concentrate on primary archaeological data relating to the Palaeolithic and Neolithic of Asia and Europe. It will include site reports and detailed studies of archaeological assemblages and there will be no limit to the length of papers, and extensive details and numerous figures will be welcome. Initially there will be two issues (of 100-200 pages each) per year. The journal is edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef and Janusz Kozlowski and appears under the imprint of their respective institutes, the American School of Prehistoric Research at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Institute of Archaeology at Jagiellonian University in Poland. This first volume contains four articles: Bisnik Cave (Krzysztof Cyrek); Introducing Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel (Mina Weinstein-Evron, Guy Bar-Oz, Yossi Zaidner, Alexander Tsatskin, Dotan Druck, Naomi Porat and Israel Hershkovitz); Late Middle Palaeolithic blade technologies and the transition to the Upper Palaeolithic in Southern Poland: TL Dating contribution (Helene Valladas, Norbert Mercier, Catherine Escutenaire, Tomasz Kalicki, J K Kozlowski, Valery Sitlivy, Krysztof Sobczyk, Aleksandar Zieba, Birgitte Van Vliet-Lanoë); Trapezoids and double truncations in the Epigravettian assemblages of Northereastern Italy