On Shelter's Ledge, Histories, Theories and Methods of Rockshelter Research /Pres du Bord D'un Abri, les Histories, Theories et Methodes de Recherches . Archaeological Reports International Series, 1655)

vi, 199 pages : illustrations, maps. Session 54 in the proceedings of the XV World Congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP / IUPPS), held in September 2006, in Lisbon. Session 15 is concerned with recent rockshelter research. CONTENTS: Introduction: Variation, continuity and change in rockshelters and rockshelter studies: a global perspectives / by the Coordinators -- Regional overviews. Rockshelters of the Périgord: 25 ans après / by Jean-Philippe Rigaud -- Approaches to the middle Paleolithic rockshelter and cave research in Croatia / by Ivor Karavamić . -- Archaeological research in rockshelters and caves in Slovenia / by Martina Knavs -- 125 years of the rockshelter studies in Russia / by Sergey A. Vasilʹev -- Desert caves and rockshelters in the Great Basin of North America / by C. Melvin Aikens -- Rockshelter archaeology in the Middle Tennessee Valley of North America / by Boyce Driskell -- Rockshelter of the middle Rocky Mountains: 70 years of research / by Marcel Kornfeld -- A century of Basketmaker II rockshelter research in the American Southwest: the archaeology of transition to farming across the Colorado Plateau / by Francis E. Smiley and Susan Gregg Smiley -- Subterranean caves, their morphology and archaeological content: the mortuary caves in Coahuila, Mexico / by Leticia González Arratia -- Current research in Europe and Africa. Rockshelter studies in southwest Iberia: the case of Vale Boi (Algarve, Southern Portugal) / by Nuno Bicho [and others] -- Early tardiglacial human uses of el Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain) / by Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel González Morales -- Answer to the problem of the diachronic and synchronic relationship of arqueopaleontological elements in sites with homogeneous sediments in the Middle-Pleistocene: the example of Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca / by Rosana Obregón and Antoni Canals -- Stratigraphie et chronologie an archéologie préhistorique / by Françoise Delpeche -- Caves and rockshelters of the Trieste Karst (Northeastern Italy) in late prehistory / by Manuela Montagnari Kokelj -- The secret cave city hidden in the cliffs (Lovranska Draga Canyon, Istria, Croatia) / by Darko Komšo and Martina Blečić -- Reflections on the Takarkori rockshelter (Fezzan, Libyan Sahara) / by Stefano Biagetti and Savino di Lernia -- Collapsed rockshelters in Patagonia / Louis Alberto Borrero [and others] -- Chorrillo Malo 2 (Upper Santa Cruz Basin, Patagonia, Argentina): new data on its stratigraphic sequence / by Nora Franco, Adriana Mehl, and Clara Otaola -- The paleoindian occupations at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Danger Cave, and Smith Creek Cave (Eastern Great Basin, U.S.A.): interpreting their radiocarbon chronologies / by Ted Goebel [and others] -- A GIS perspective on rockshelter landscapes in Wyoming / by Mary Lou Larson -- The geologic and geomorphic context of rockshelters in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming / by Judson Finley -- Closed site investigation in the American Northeast: the view from Meadowcroft / by James Adovasio -- The madness behind the method: interdisciplinary rockshelter research in the northeastern United States / by Jonathan A. Burns, John S. Wah, and Robert E. Kruchoski.