Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia

Part I. The Human Fossil Record

1. Paleoanthropology in Greece: Recent Findings and Interpretations
Katerina Harvati

2. The Role of the Central Balkans in the Peopling of Europe: Paleoanthropological Evidence
Mirjana Roksandic

3. The Importance of Croatian Pleistocene Hominin Finds in the Study of Human Evolution
Ivor Janković, James C. M. Ahern, Ivor Karavanić, Fred H. Smith

4. The Human Fossil Record from Romania: Early Upper Paleolithic European Mandibles and Neanderthal Admixture
Katerina Harvati, Mirjana Roksandic

5. The Human Fossil Record of Bulgaria and the Formulation of Biogeographic Hypotheses
David S. Strait, Caley M. Orr, Jamie Hodgkins, Nikolai Spassov, Maria Gurova, Christopher Miller, Tsanko Tzankov

6. The Human Fossil Record from Turkey
Ahmet İhsan Aytek, Katerina Harvati

Part II. The Archaeological Record

7. The Middle and Upper Paleolithic on the Western Coast of the Mani Peninsula (Southern Greece)
Andreas Darlas, Eleni Psathi

8. The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece: 2010–2012
Nena Galanidou, Constantin Athanassas, James Cole, Giorgos Iliopoulos, Athanasios Katerinopoulos, Andreas Magganas, John McNabb

9. Technological Changes and Population Movements in the Late Lower and Early Middle Paleolithic of the Central Balkans
Dušan Mihailović, Katarina Bogićević

10. Recent Research on the Croatian Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface in the Context of Central and Southeast Europe
Ivor Karavanić, Rajna Šošić-Klindžić, James C. M. Ahern, Natalija Čondić, Ivor Janković, Krunoslav Zubčić, Fred H. Smith

11. The Lower Paleolithic of Romania Revisited: New Evidence from the Site of Dealul Guran
Adrian Doboş, Radu Iovita

12. A Route Through the Balkans and Implications for the Earliest Settlement of Europe
Stefanka Ivanova

13. The Lower Paleolithic in Turkey: Anatolia and Hominin Dispersals Out of Africa
Berkay Dinçer

14. Technological Variability of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: Examples from the Balkans and Neighbouring Regions
Valéry Sitlivy

Part III. Paleoenvironments, Biogeography and Chronology

15. The Plio-Pleistocene Large Mammal Record of Greece: Implications for Early Human Dispersals into Europe
George D. Koufos, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos

16. Southeastern Europe as a Route for the Earliest Dispersal of Homo Toward Europe: Ecological Conditions and the Timing of the First Human Occupation of Europe
Nikolai Spassov

17. Small Mammals in the Plio/Pleistocene Sediments of Greece
Constantin S. Doukas, Katerina Papayianni

18. On the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Mediterranean Lower Paleolithic Sites: A Geoarchaeological Perspective
Vangelis Tourloukis

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Paleontology, Archaeology, Biogeosciences, Environmental Geography, Evolutionary Biology