The aims of the commission are:
-Promote the research on the Mesolithic of southern Europe, northern Africa and western Asia
-Contribute to the understanding of the human adaptations t temperate areas during the Holocene
-Improve the knowledge of the transition to farming societies in western Asia, northern Africa and Europe
-Create a stable network of researchers working on late hunter-gatherer societies and the transition to the Neolithic in western Eurasia and northern Africa