Crossing the Human Threshold

The volume will provide, for the first time in forty years, a global overview of Late Middle Pleistocene archaeology. It investigates whether this period saw a significant growth in hominin capacities that foreshadow many of the better documented developments associated with the much later modern human revolution. Leading international experts review cave and open sites, drawing on evidence from all parts of the Old World that were inhabited during the period, and engage in the debates about the evolution of modern human behaviour and challenge the current conceptual structure.