Voorwoord – Avant-propos | Steve Stevaert

Introduction – Inleiding | Bart Demarsin

Who were the Neanderthals? | Ian Tattersall

The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe | Simon A. Parfitt et al

The Wrong Question | Milford H. Wolpoff

The dating of Neanderthal sites | Nick Debenham

The physical environment during the Later Quaternary in Mid-Western Europe | Frans Gullentops

A biostratigraphycal base for dating Palaeolithic sites | Thijs van Kolfschoten

Neanderthals in their landscape | Jürgen Richter

Comportements de subsistance des Néandertaliens d'Europe | Marylène Patou-Mathis

Les Néandertaliens en Europe centrale | Janusz K. Kozlowski

Stage 3 Climate and the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution in Europe: Evolutionary

Perspectives | Paul Mellars

Levallois, Quina and Laminar Reduction at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater | Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans et al.

1997-2005 Research in the caves of Goyet (Gesves, province of Namur, Belgium).

Tongeren Neandertal symposium excursion, 9 September 2004 | Michel Toussaint

Conclusion | Marcel Otte