Titoli dei singoli volumi: Theoretical and methodological problems; Archaeometry; Paleoecology; The firs humans andtheir cultural manifestations; The lower and middle palaeolithic; The upper palaeolithic; The mesolithic; Art in the palaeolithic and mesolithic; The neolithic in the near east and Europe; The copper age in the near east and Europe; The bronze age in Europe and the Mediterranean; The iron age in Europe; The roman period (in the provincess and the barbaric world); Archaeology and history of the middle ages; The prehistory of Africa; The prehistory of Asia and Oceania; The prehistory of the Americas; Prehistoric research in the context of contemporary society