Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP

The passage between the periods which we call Middle and Upper Palaeolithic has long held a special fascination for Palaeolithic archaeologists, but over the past ten years or so it has gone right to the top of the list of ''hot'' research topics. Underpinning it all is genuine and apparently enduring public interest in what actually happened at this point in human history. Why so much public inte...