Aitor Ruiz-Redondo is a Senior Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a British Academy Newton International alumnus. He obtained his PhD in Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Cantabria (Spain) with a thesis about Palaeolithic graphic behaviour in South-western Europe. He later undertook postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Bordeaux (France), Southampton (UK), and Zaragoza (Spain), where his research has mainly been dedicated to the study of Upper Palaeolithic societies of Eastern Europe. He has led international research projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, and UAE. Since 2020 he is vice-president of the UISPP 'Prehistoric art' world commission.William Davies is Professor of Palaeoanthropology at the University of Southampton (UK), and has developed strong research interests in the later European Palaeolithic (100,000-10,000 years ago) over the last 30 years. His research has focused on integrating palaeoanthropological, palaeoclimatic, and palaeoenvironmental datasets within robust chronological frameworks (Stage 3 Project, 1996-2002; S2AGES project, 2001-2004; EFCHED and RESET programmes, 2004-2013), as well as the characterisation of creativity and innovation in ceramic and other Palaeolithic technologies. He has lectured at the University of Southampton since 2006, and before then held post-doctoral research positions at the universities of Cambridge, Southampton, Oxford, and London.

• List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsPreface // CLIVE GAMBLE1: AITOR RUIZ-REDONDO and WILLIAM DAVIES: Introduction: current relevance and future potential of South-eastern Europe in Palaeolithic research2: Dušan MIHAILOVIĆ: Lower Palaeolithic settlement of the Balkans: evidence from caves and open-air sites3: MIRJANA ROKSANDIC, PREDRAG RADOVIĆ, JOSHUA LINDAL: The complex picture of the Middle Pleistocene hominin record at the crossroads of Europe and Asia4: IVOR KARAVANIĆ and MARKO BANDA: The Middle Palaeolithic of South-Eastern Europe5: ANA B. MARÍN-ARROYO, JENNIFER JONES, EMANUELA CRISTIANI, RHIANNON E. STEVENS, DU%SAN MIHAILOVI? AND BOJANA MIHAILOVI?: Late Pleistocene hominin settlement patterns in the Central Balkans: Šalitrena Pećina, Serbia6: TSENKA TSANOVA: Preliminary comparison and chronology of the lithic blade and bladelet assemblages at the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic from Bacho Kiro, Temnata and Kozarnika caves in the Eastern Balkans (Bulgaria)7: IVOR JANKOVIĆ AND FRED H. SMITH: Late Pleistocene human fossils from East-Central and South-Eastern Europe8: NENA GALANIDOU AND CHRISTINA PAPOULIA: Between the Aegean and the Adriatic: The Balkan Palaeolithic and the Sea9: NIKOLA VUKOSAVLJEVIĆ: Epigravettian in the Eastern Adriatic and its Hinterland: an overview of settlement dynamics, chronology, subsistence strategies and material culture10: REBECCA FARBSTEIN: Lateglacial ceramic innovation and symbolism from the Balkans in its wider context11: MARC VANDER LINDEN: Refugial foragers to invasive farmers: socio-environmental transitions during the Early Holocene in the BalkansIndex

Aitor Ruiz-Redondo is a Senior Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a British Academy Newton International alumnus. He obtained his PhD in Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Cantabria (Spain) with a thesis about Palaeolithic graphic behaviour in South-western Europe. He later undertook postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Bordeaux (France), Southampton (UK), and Zaragoza (Spain), where his research has mainly been dedicated to the study of Upper Palaeolithic societies of Eastern Europe. He has led international research projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, and UAE. Since 2020 he is vice-president of the UISPP 'Prehistoric art' world commission.William Davies is Professor of Palaeoanthropology at the University of Southampton (UK), and has developed strong research interests in the later European Palaeolithic (100,000-10,000 years ago) over the last 30 years. His research has focused on integrating palaeoanthropological, palaeoclimatic, and palaeoenvironmental datasets within robust chronological frameworks (Stage 3 Project, 1996-2002; S2AGES project, 2001-2004; EFCHED and RESET programmes, 2004-2013), as well as the characterisation of creativity and innovation in ceramic and other Palaeolithic technologies. He has lectured at the University of Southampton since 2006, and before then held post-doctoral research positions at the universities of Cambridge, Southampton, Oxford, and London.

• List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsPreface // CLIVE GAMBLE1: AITOR RUIZ-REDONDO and WILLIAM DAVIES: Introduction: current relevance and future potential of South-eastern Europe in Palaeolithic research2: Dušan MIHAILOVIĆ: Lower Palaeolithic settlement of the Balkans: evidence from caves and open-air sites3: MIRJANA ROKSANDIC, PREDRAG RADOVIĆ, JOSHUA LINDAL: The complex picture of the Middle Pleistocene hominin record at the crossroads of Europe and Asia4: IVOR KARAVANIĆ and MARKO BANDA: The Middle Palaeolithic of South-Eastern Europe5: ANA B. MARÍN-ARROYO, JENNIFER JONES, EMANUELA CRISTIANI, RHIANNON E. STEVENS, DU%SAN MIHAILOVI? AND BOJANA MIHAILOVI?: Late Pleistocene hominin settlement patterns in the Central Balkans: Šalitrena Pećina, Serbia6: TSENKA TSANOVA: Preliminary comparison and chronology of the lithic blade and bladelet assemblages at the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic from Bacho Kiro, Temnata and Kozarnika caves in the Eastern Balkans (Bulgaria)7: IVOR JANKOVIĆ AND FRED H. SMITH: Late Pleistocene human fossils from East-Central and South-Eastern Europe8: NENA GALANIDOU AND CHRISTINA PAPOULIA: Between the Aegean and the Adriatic: The Balkan Palaeolithic and the Sea9: NIKOLA VUKOSAVLJEVIĆ: Epigravettian in the Eastern Adriatic and its Hinterland: an overview of settlement dynamics, chronology, subsistence strategies and material culture10: REBECCA FARBSTEIN: Lateglacial ceramic innovation and symbolism from the Balkans in its wider context11: MARC VANDER LINDEN: Refugial foragers to invasive farmers: socio-environmental transitions during the Early Holocene in the BalkansIndex

Aitor Ruiz-Redondo is a Senior Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a British Academy Newton International alumnus. He obtained his PhD in Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Cantabria (Spain) with a thesis about Palaeolithic graphic behaviour in South-western Europe. He later undertook postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Bordeaux (France), Southampton (UK), and Zaragoza (Spain), where his research has mainly been dedicated to the study of Upper Palaeolithic societies of Eastern Europe. He has led international research projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, and UAE. Since 2020 he is vice-president of the UISPP 'Prehistoric art' world commission.William Davies is Professor of Palaeoanthropology at the University of Southampton (UK), and has developed strong research interests in the later European Palaeolithic (100,000-10,000 years ago) over the last 30 years. His research has focused on integrating palaeoanthropological, palaeoclimatic, and palaeoenvironmental datasets within robust chronological frameworks (Stage 3 Project, 1996-2002; S2AGES project, 2001-2004; EFCHED and RESET programmes, 2004-2013), as well as the characterisation of creativity and innovation in ceramic and other Palaeolithic technologies. He has lectured at the University of Southampton since 2006, and before then held post-doctoral research positions at the universities of Cambridge, Southampton, Oxford, and London.

• List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsPreface // CLIVE GAMBLE1: AITOR RUIZ-REDONDO and WILLIAM DAVIES: Introduction: current relevance and future potential of South-eastern Europe in Palaeolithic research2: Dušan MIHAILOVIĆ: Lower Palaeolithic settlement of the Balkans: evidence from caves and open-air sites3: MIRJANA ROKSANDIC, PREDRAG RADOVIĆ, JOSHUA LINDAL: The complex picture of the Middle Pleistocene hominin record at the crossroads of Europe and Asia4: IVOR KARAVANIĆ and MARKO BANDA: The Middle Palaeolithic of South-Eastern Europe5: ANA B. MARÍN-ARROYO, JENNIFER JONES, EMANUELA CRISTIANI, RHIANNON E. STEVENS, DU%SAN MIHAILOVI? AND BOJANA MIHAILOVI?: Late Pleistocene hominin settlement patterns in the Central Balkans: Šalitrena Pećina, Serbia6: TSENKA TSANOVA: Preliminary comparison and chronology of the lithic blade and bladelet assemblages at the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic from Bacho Kiro, Temnata and Kozarnika caves in the Eastern Balkans (Bulgaria)7: IVOR JANKOVIĆ AND FRED H. SMITH: Late Pleistocene human fossils from East-Central and South-Eastern Europe8: NENA GALANIDOU AND CHRISTINA PAPOULIA: Between the Aegean and the Adriatic: The Balkan Palaeolithic and the Sea9: NIKOLA VUKOSAVLJEVIĆ: Epigravettian in the Eastern Adriatic and its Hinterland: an overview of settlement dynamics, chronology, subsistence strategies and material culture10: REBECCA FARBSTEIN: Lateglacial ceramic innovation and symbolism from the Balkans in its wider context11: MARC VANDER LINDEN: Refugial foragers to invasive farmers: socio-environmental transitions during the Early Holocene in the BalkansIndex