"The contents of this volume result fro a symposium held at the Euro pean headquarters of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Res earch at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, July 3 - 11, 1960."

Includes bibliographies

Africa south of the Sahara, by J.D. Clark. -The intermediate area, A mazonia, and the Caribbean area, by I. Rouse . -India, by H.D. Sankalia . - Mesoamerica, by G.R. Willey. - The greater American Southwest, by E .W. Haury. - Southwestern Asia beyon the lands of the mediterranean lit torral, by R.J. Braidwood and B. Howe. - Palestine, Syria, Cilicia, by J. Perot. - The central Ades, by D. Collier. - China, by Kwang-chih Cha ng. - The first ground planof an upper Paleolithic loess settlement in Middle Eirope and its meaning, by B. Klima. - Southern Middle Europe an d Southwester Europe, by R. Pittioni. - The lower Rhine basin by H.T. W aterbolk. - Northern continental Europe, by H. Schwabedissen. - The tem perate zone of continental Asia, by A.P. Okladnikov. - Eastern North Am erica, by J.R. Caldwell. - Northern Europe, by C.A. Moberg. - Conclusio ns and afterthoughts, by R.J. Braidwood and G.R. Wiley