COMMISION REPORT

Dušan Mihailović, Bojana Mihailović, Nikola Borovinić, Ivana Pandžić - RESEARCH ON THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC OF SERBIA, MONTENEGRO AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA FROM 2012 TO 2017

A.A.Sinitsyn, A.A.Bessudnov, A.E.Dudin, S.N.Lisitsyn - KOSTENKI-BORSCHEVO GROUP DE SITES 2013-17

Annamaria Ronchitelli, Paolo Boscato, Paolo Gambassini, Adriana Moroni - L’ACTIVITE QUINQUENNALE (2014-2018) SUR LE PALEOLITHIQUE SUPERIEUR DANS L’ITALIE DU SUD

Flavio Altamura & Margherita Mussi - CENTRAL ITALY, LIGURIA AND SARDINIA: AN OVERVIEW OF THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC EVIDENCE (2012-2018)

Lioudmila Lakovleva -LES FOUILLES SUR LES SITES DU PALÉOLITHIQUE SUPÉRIEUR D'UKRAINE (2014 – 2017)

Jiří Svoboda, Martin Novák, Sandra Sázelová, Petr Šída, Petr Škrdla - CZECH REPUBLIC: PROJECTS OF THE PALEOLITHIC AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER (CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, BRNO)

Martin Oliva - LE PALEOLITHIQUE SUPERIEUR DANS LES PAYS TCHEQUES – BILAN DES TRAVAUX 2014-2017

Lawrence G. Straus & Manuel R. González Morales - EL MIRON CAVE PREHISTORIC PROJECT (CANTABRIA, SPAIN), 2012-2016

Josep Mª Fullola Pericot - LE PALÉOLITHIQUE SUPÉRIEUR EN CATALOGNE (2014-2017)

Jarosław Wilczyński - LE PALEOLITHIQUE SUPERIEUR EN POLOGNE (2014-2018)

Thierry Aubry - LE PALEOLITHIQUE SUPERIEUR DU CENTRE ET DU NORD DU PORTUGAL (2014-2018)

Eugenia Adam - UPPER PALAEOLITHIC RESEARCH IN GREECE: CURRENT TENDENCIES AND OBSERVATIONS

Valentín Villaverde - LE PALÉOLITHIQUE SUPÉRIEUR DANS LES RÉGIONS DE VALENCE ET MURCIE (2013-2017)

Miguel Cortés Sánchez - LA INVESTIGACIÓN DEL PALEOLÍTICO SUPERIOR EN EL SUR DE IBERIA (2014-2017)

François Bon & Mathieu Langlais - LE PALEOLITHIQUE RECENT ET FINAL DU BASSIN AQUITAIN, DES PYRENEES FRANÇAISES ET DU LANGUEDOC MEDITERRANEEN (2011-2017)

Pilar Utrilla & Rafael Domingo - LE PALEOLITHIQUE SUPÉRIEUR À LA VALLÉE DE L’ÈBRE ET EUZKADI (2014-2018)

Ľubomíra Kaminská - RESEARCH ON THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC IN SLOVAKIA IN 2014-2018


LE PALEOLITHIQUE SUPERIEUR EN RUSSIE (2014-2018)

In search of the Paleolithic at the upper reaches of the Abakan River - Excavations held by Valeriy S. Zubkov, Associate Professor, PhD, zubkoffval2013@mail.ru, Katanov State Khakasiya University, Abakan, and Sergey A. Vasilyev, PhD, Doctor of Sciences, sergevas@AV2791.spb.edu, Institute for the Material Culture History, St.Petersburg.

New studies of the Upper Paleolithic site Byki-7 on the Seim River - Excavations held by Natalia B. Akhmetgaleeva, Ph.d, Chief researcher of Kursk Regional Museum of Local Lore, achmetga@mail.ru

The complex of the Upper Paleolithic sites Kamennaya Balka (North Black Sea region) - Excavations held by Natalia B. Leonova, Professor, PhD, Doctor of History, nbleonova@gmail.com; Ekaterina A. Vinogradova, PhD, Senior lecturer, vinogradovae@mail.ru, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of History, Department of Archaeology and Nina A. Khaikunova, PhD, researcher in the State Historical Museum, ninonkh@gmail.com.

Shulgan-Tash (Kapova Cave) is located in Southern Urals, 4000 kilometres from the main concentrations of Ice Age parietal art in Western Europe - Works held by the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences: PhD, Doctor of History Ekaterina Devlet, Eudald Guillamet, Alexander Pakhunov, Nikolai Grigoriev, Danir Gainullin

Upper Paleolithic kill-sites at Divnogorye - Excavations held by Alexander N. Bessudnov, PhD, bessudnov_an@rambler.ru, Associate Professor, Lipetsk State University, and Alexander A. Bessudnov, PhD, bessudnov_a22@mail.ru, Institute for the Material Culture History, St.Petersburg.

Large-scale salvage archaeology campaign at the Late Upper Paleolithic site of Irba 2, South Siberia - Excavations held by Andrey V. Polyakov, PhD, poliakov@yandex.ru, Institute for the Material Culture History, St.Petersburg; Petr B. Amzarakov, petr_amzarakov@mail.ru, Khakass Research Institute of Language, Literature and History, Abakan, and Sergey A. Vasilyev, Ph.D, Doctor of Sciences, sergevas@AV2791.spb.edu, Institute for the Material Culture History, St.Petersburg.

Khotylevo 2 Upper Paleolithic site - Excavations by Konstantin Gavrilov, Ph.d, senior researcher of the Stone Age Department, Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, k_gavrilov.68@mail.ru.

Investigation of Mesolithic and Upper Paleolithic multilayer sites of the North-West Caucasus - Excavations held by Elena V. Leonova, Ph.d, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, lenischa@yandex.ru

New discoveries in Zaraysk - Excavations held by Sergey Y. Lev, Ph.d, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, zaraysk@yandex.ru

Excavations on Sungir Upper Paleolithic site - Excavations by Konstantin Gavrilov, Ph.D., senior researcher of the Stone Age Department, Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, k_gavrilov.68@mail.ru; and Sergey Lev, Ph.D., researcher of the Stone Age Department, Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, zaraysk@yandex.ru.

Yudinovo, a site of mammoth hunters - Excavations held by Gennady A. Khlopachev, PhD, gak@kunstkamera.ru, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St.Petersburg.

Kapova cave investigations - Investigations held by Vladislav Zhitenev, Associate Professor, PhD, Doctor of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of History, Department of Archaeology, macober@mail.ru

The oldest humans in the Arctic. The Yana sites and beyond - Excavations held by Vladimir V. Pitulko, PhD, pitulkov@gmail.com, Institute for the Material Culture History, St.Petersburg.