The Scales of Steven L. Kuhn’s Contributions to Archaeology and Specifically the Study of the Initial Upper Paleolithic

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Steve Kuhn’s contributions to anthropological archaeology run the gamut of scale, from discipline-changing research that has put theoretical and analytical tools into the hands of thousands of archaeologists around the world, to his profound influence on the careers of individuals who were inspired by his kindness. I certainly count myself in both groups. Likewise, his research has touched on the small, logistical scale of forager mobility, to the large, continent-wide scale of behavioral phenomena such as the Initial Upper Paleolithic. The present paper uses these themes of scale and mobility to present new data on the Initial Upper Paleolithic phenomenon in Central Europe, through a study that tests hypotheses behind the inter-assemblage variability within the Bohunician technocomplex and its relationship to other industries, such as the Szeletian and the Lincombian‑Ranisian‑Jerzmanowician. The paper concludes with an exploration of the implications of these technological relationships for our understanding of the role of the Initial Upper Paleolithic in the period of Neanderthal-Modern hybridization.

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• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
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Abstract Id(s): 50224