Chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. This study addresses the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch.

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Introduction: The World at the End of the Last Ice Age; L.G. Straus. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Africa and the Near East: L. Straus. At the Transition: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in Southern Africa; P.J. Mitchell, et al. Plus Ca Change: The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Northeastern Africa; A.E. Close. The Impact of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Climatic Changes on Humans in Southwestern Asia; O. Bar-Yosef. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Europe: B.V. Eriksen. The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Southwest Europe; L.G. Straus. Resource Exploitation, Subsistence Strategies and Adaptiveness in Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Northwestern Europe; B.V. Eriksen. The North European Plain and Eastern Sub-Balticum between 12,000 and 8,000 B.P.; R. Schild. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition on the East European Plain; P.M. Dolukhanov. Asia and Australia during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition: J.M. Erlandson. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Greater Australia; J. Allen, P. Kershaw. Human Activities and Environmental Changes during the Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene in Southern Thailand and Southeast Asia; S. Pookajorn. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Japan and Adjacent Northeast Asia: Climatic and Biotic Change, Broadspectrum Diet, Pottery, and Sedentism; C.M. Aikens, T. Akazawa. Siberia in the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial; W.R. Powers. Environments and Peoples at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in the Americas; D.R. Yesner. Human Adaptation at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary; (ca. 13,000 to 8,000 B.P.) in Eastern Beringia; D.R. Yesner. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition along the Pacific Coast of North America; J.M. Erlandson, M.L. Moss. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition on the Plains and Rocky Mountains of North America; G.C. Frison, R. Bonnichsen. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Eastern United States; D.F. Morse, et al. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Southern South America; L.A. Borrero. Conclusion: Surprises, Recurring Themes, and New Questions in the Study of the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial; M.A. Jochim. Index.