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In July 1989, the first Soviet-American Symposium on Upper Paleolithic-PaleoIndian Adaptations was held in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) at the Institute of the History of Material Culture (formerly Institute of Archaeology).
Nineteen of the 26 papers originally presented at this gathering were revised and assembled for this volume, along with introductory chapters by the editors and V. M. Masson, and a concluding overview by Clive Gamble. According to the opening chapter, the primary focus of the symposium was a comparison of the “wide range of [Late Paleolithic] human adaptations” (p. 4) represented in the archaeological records of northern Eurasia and North America (issues relating to the linkage between the two records across Beringia were “purposefully bypassed” [p. 41). Although some of the Old World papers touch on
Central Europe or Siberia, most reflect a focus on the East European Plain. As Soffer and Praslov note, despite broad similarities in environment, the differences between the two regions are striking, and they evoke interesting questions, including some of special concern to the geoarchaeologist.
