Pleistocene polyphony - the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum, Clive Gamble and Olga Soffer; living in the Last High Glacial - an interdisciplinary challenge, T.H.van Andel; the Last Pleniglacial in the Paris Basin (22,500-14,000 BP), Beatrice Schmider; the northwestern European Plain around 18,000 BP, Marcel Otte; the last Pleniglacial in the south of France (24,000-14,000 years ago), Jean-Philippe Rigaud and Jan F.Simek; the Last Glacial Maximum in Cantabrian Spain - the Solutrean, Lawrence Guy Straus; the Portuguese Estremadura at 18,000 BP - the Solutrean, Joao Zilhao; continuity and change in Italy at the Last Glacial Maximum, Margherita Mussi; the Balkans at 18,000 BP - the view from Epirus, Geoff Bailey and Clive Gamble; Germany at 18,000 BP, Gerd-C.Weniger; Moravia during the Upper Pleniglacial, Jiri Svoboda; Northern Central Europe c 18,000 BP, Janusz K.Kozlowksi; the Russian Plain at the Last Glacial Maximum, Olga Soffer; environmental conditions and human occupation of northern Eurasia during the Late Valdai, A.A.Velichko and E.I.Kurenkova; Central Asia hunter-gatherers at the Last Glacial Maximum, Richard S.Davis; China at the last Glacial Maximum, Chen Chun and John W.Olsen; Japan and Korea at 18 000 BP, T.E.G.Reynolds and S.C.Kaner; new world palaeoecology at the Last Glacial Maximum and the implications for new world prehistory, George C.Frison and Danny N.Walker; minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18 K and otherwise, H.Martin Wobst.
