Building on the first Wild Things volume (Oxbow Books 2014) which aimed to showcase the research putting archaeologists researching the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic at the cutting edge of understanding humanity’s past, this collection of contributions presents recent research from an international group of both early career and established scientists.

Covering aspects of both Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research in order to encourage dialogue between practitioners of archaeology of both periods, contributions are also geographically diverse, touching on British, European, North American and Asian archaeology. Topics covered include transitional periods, deer and people, stone tool technologies, pottery, land-use, antler frontlets, and the development of prehistoric archaeology an 'age of wonder'.

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• 1. Introduction: More wild things
• 2. A view from the tops: Combining an assemblage analysis and a Geographical Information Systems approach to investigate upland site function and landscape use in the Lower Palaeolithic of Britain
• 3. Clovis and the implications of the peopling of North America
• 4. Experimental magnetic susceptibility signatures for identifying hearths in the Mesolithic period in North East England, UK
• 5. In the fringes, at the twilight: Encountering deer in the British Mesolithic
• 6. Man’s best friend? A critical perspective on human-animal relations from Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic mortuary practices
• 7. Empathy, cognition and the response to death in the Middle Palaeolithic: The emergence of postmortemism
• 8. Seeking the body: The nature of European Palaeolithic cave art and installation art
• 9. Reflecting Magdalenian identities: Considering a functional duality for Middle to Late Magdalenian antler projectile points
• 10. Concealing traces of ‘untamed’ fire: The Mesolithic pottery makers and users of Japan
• 11. Naming neanderthalensis in Newcastle, 1863: The politics of a scientific meeting
• 12. George Busk and the remarkable Neanderthal