On Shelter's Ledge : Histories, Theories and Methods of Rockshelter Research

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: 1) Introduction: Variation, Continuity and Change in Rockshelters and Rockshelter Studies: A Global Perspectives (The Coordinators); 2) Rockshelters of the Perigord: 25 Ans Apres (Jean-Philippe Rigaud); 3) Approaches to the Middle Paleolithic Rockshelter and Cave Research in Croatia (Ivor Karavanic, Nikola Vukosavljevic, Rajna oic, and Sanjin Mihelic); 4) Archaeological Research in Rockshelters and Caves in Slovenia (Martina Knavs); 5) 125 Years of the Rockshelter Studies in Russia (Sergey A. Vasil'ev); 6) Desert Caves and Rockshelters in the Great Basin of North America (C. Melvin Aikens); 7) Rockshelter Archaeology in the Middle Tennessee Valley of North America (Boyce Driskell); 8) Rockshelter of the Middle Rocky Mountains: 70 years of research (Marcel Kornfeld); 9) A Century of Basketmaker II Rockshelter Research in the American Southwest: the Archaeology of Transition to Farming Across the Colorado Plateau (Francis E. Smiley and Susan Gregg Smiley); 10) Subterranean Caves, Their Morphology and Archaeological Content: The Mortuary Caves in Coahuila, Mexico (Leticia Gonzalez Arratia); 11) Rockshelter Studies in Southwest Iberia: The Case of Vale Boi (Algarve, Southern Portugal)(Nuno Bicho, Mary C. Stiner, Delminda Moura, and Armando Lucena); 12) Early Tardiglacial Human Uses of el Miron Cave (Cantabria, Spain)(Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel Gonzalez Morales); 13) 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 (Rosana Obregon and Antoni Canals); 14) Stratigraphie et Chronologie an Archeologie Prehistorique (Francoise Delpeche) ; 15) Caves and Rockshelters of the Trieste Karst (Northeastern Italy) in Late Prehistory (Manuela Montagnari Kokelj); 16) The Secret Cave City Hidden in the Cliffs (Lovranska Draga Canyon, Istria, Croatia)(Darko Komo and Martina Blecic); 17) Reflections on the Takarkori Rockshelter (Fezzan, Libyan Sahara)(Stefano Biagetti and Savino di Lernia); 18) Collapsed Rockshelters in Patagonia (Louis Alberto Borrero, R. Barberena, F.M. Martin, and K. Borrazzo); 19) Chorrillo Malo 2 (Upper Santa Cruz Basin, Patagonia, Argentina): New Data on its Stratigraphic Sequence (Nora Franco, Adriana Mehl, and Clara Otaola); 20) The Paleoindian Occupations at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Danger Cave, and Smith Creek Cave (Eastern Great Basin, U.S.A.): Interpreting Their Radiocarbon Chronologies (Ted Goebel, Kelly Graf, Bryan Hocket, and David Rhode); 21) A GIS Perspective on Rockshelter Landscapes in Wyoming (Mary Lou Larson); 22) The Geologic and Geomorphic Context of Rockshelters in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming (Judson Finley); 23) Closed Site Investigation in the American Northeast: The View from Meadowcroft (James Adovasio); 24) The Madness Behind the Method: Interdisciplinary Rockshelter Research in the Northeastern United States (Jonathan A. Burns, John S. Wah, and Robert E. Kruchoski). Papers in English and French.Kornfeld, Marcel is the author of 'On Shelter's Ledge : Histories, Theories and Methods of Rockshelter Research', published 2007 under ISBN 9781407300917 and ISBN 1407300911.