Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), Volume 35.

C74 edited by Marc Groenen and Didier Martens.

C81 edited by Jane Kolber; John Clegg and Alicia Distel.

C85 edited by Kevin Sharpe and Jean Clottes.

S02 edited by Mila SimOes Abreu.

S07 edited by Giriraj Kumar and Robert Bednarik.

WS37 edited by James Keyser and Mavis Greer.

Volume edited by Claudia Fidalgo and Luiz Oosterbeek.

Volume 3, Sessions 36 and 37

This book is the result of two symposia from the 16th World Congress of the IUPPS (FlorianOpolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011): 'The image in portable art and cave art in the European Palaeolithic Age' (session 36), and the 'Analysis of human behaviour in relation to fire in prehistory. From laboratory results to palethnographic interpretation' (session 37).

Research on rock art conducted during the last several decades has shown the skill and knowledge demonstrated by the painters, engravers and sculptors who executed the motifs on rock surfaces and supports. Some motif sets required their creators to acquire a strong graphic command while workmanship techniques have very often proved to be more complex than previously assumed, including for remote periods. It also appears that the motifs have been placed according to specific criteria in connection with spatial orientation or support shape, for instance. The aim of this volume is to question...