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Searching for common ground in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and genetics 1 Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda R. Backwell The history of a special relationship: prehistoric terminology and lithic technology 9 between the French and South African research traditions Nathan Schlanger Essential attributes of any technologically competent animal 38 Charles K. Brain Significant tools and signifying monkeys: the question of body techniques 52 and elementary actions on matter among apes and early hominids Frderic Joulian Tools and brains: which came first? 82 Phillip V Tobias Environmental changes and hominid evolution: what the vegetation tells us 103 Marion K. Bamford Implications of the presence of African ape-like teeth in the Miocene of Kenya 121 Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut Dawn of hominids: understanding the ape-hominid dichotomy 134 Brigitte Senut The impact of new excavations from the Cradle of Humankind on our 152 understanding of the evolution of hominins and their cultures Lee R. Berger Stone Age signatures in northernmost South Africa: early archaeology in the 163 Mapungubwe National Park and vicinity Kathleen Kuman, Ryan Gibbon, Helen Kempson, Geeske Langejans, Joel Le Baron, Luca Pollarolo and Morris Sutton Vertebral column, bipedalism and freedom of the hands 183 Dominique Gommery Characterising early Homo: cladistic, morphological and metrical analyses of 198 the original Plio-Pleistocene specimens Sandrine Prat Early Homo, 'robust' australopithecines and stone tools at Kromdraai, South Africa 229 Francis Thackeray andJose Braga The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid 238 cultural traditions Lucinda Backwell and Francesco d'Errico Contribution of genetics to the study of human origins 276 Himla Soodyall and TreforJenkins An overview of the patterns of behavioural change in Africa and Eurasia during 294 the Middle and Late Pleistocene Nicholas]. Conard From the tropics to the colder climates: contrasting faunal exploitation adaptations 333 of modern humans and Neanderthals Curtis W Marean New neighbours: interaction and image-making during the West European 372 Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition David Lewis-Williams Late Mousterian lithic technology: its implications for the pace of the emergence 389 of behavioural modernity and the relationship between behavioural modernity and biological modernity Marie Soressi Exploring and quantifying technological differences between the MSA I, MSA II 418 and Howieson's Poort at Klasies River Sarah Wurz Stratigraphic integrity of the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave 441 Christopher Henshilwood Testing and demonstrating the stratigraphic integrity of artefacts from MSA 459 deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa ZenobiaJacobs From tool to symbol: the behavioural context of intentionally marked ostrich 475 eggshell from Diepkloof, Western Cape John Parkington, Cedric Poggenpoel, Jean-Philippe Rigaud and Pierre-Jean Texier Chronology of the Howieson's Poort and Still Bay techno-complexes: assessment 493 and new data from luminescence Chantal Tribolo, Norbert Mercier and Hlene Valladas Subsistence strategies in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave: the microscopic 512 evidence from stone tool residues Bonny S. Williamson Speaking with beads: the evolutionary significance of personal ornaments 525 Marian Vanhaeren