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Each society is the product of a set of selves. In this regard, the interaction of each of these selves with the society is very important. Anna Gavalda, the contemporary woman writer, reflected this element of a heterogeneous whole in her works, sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously. Her art lies in her universal and accurate view as a superior witness who tries to lead us to reality, truth, and transparency. In the present study, first, using the sociological theories, we investigate the following three research questions: 1) How does Anna Gavalda portray social realities, the desperate power of money, and modern slavery in her works (e.g. I wish someone was waiting for me somewhere, Someone I loved and Hunting and Gathering)?; 2) By resorting to what linguistic processes does Anna Gavalda seek particularities of herself? And, 3) Using the psychological approaches of Gustave-Nicolas Fischer, what are the interactions between the self and the society by taking a look at the alternatives of the society and language using social deixis and orality? The self and the society can intertwine, and the society can change the characteristics of the self. In this respect, she is sometimes in touch which her society but fails to understand some of these details. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study of the prehistoric groups of the Rio de La Plata region includes two major aspects. Firstly, the critical study of the archaeological evidence concerning archaeological and geological stratigraphy, climate, flora, fauna, environment, site types, lithic and bones industries, ceramics, chronology, etc. Secondly, the long-term prehistoric events related to hunting, fishing, gathering and horticultural economies in the Rio de La Plata region. It also includes the transformation of the geographic landscape since the Pleistocene- Holocene transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: During the years 1996 and 1997, a team of the Laboratory of Prehistory, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, and of the Departments of Archaeology, Karachi and Peshawar University, Pakistan, leads the first prehistoric field investigation in the District of Chitral, Hindu Kush, close to the Wakhan Corridor (the Amu Daria course in the Pamir). Problematics are the origins and the becoming of the Epipaleolithic/Neolithic hunters-gatherers known in the Pamir Plateau and the Gissar Range, the lithics tradition of which share common roots with the Sub-Himalayan Soanian tradition (Mode 1). A second field investigation has been conduced in the North West India, where Soan developed from Early Pleistocene, in the Frontal Range of the Siwaliks and Himachal Pradesh during the years 2003, 2005 and 2006 in cooperation with the Department of Archaeology and Museums of Punjab, India. New discoveries in both countries support new hypothesis for the understanding of human evolution in Asia and Homo sapiens origins. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The Laacher See volcano erupted at 10,966 cal BC covered the whole Central Rhineland with huge tephra layers which are exploited now for some 150 years. During the last 15 years of research several new find locations exhibiting tree trunks of the hemi-boreal woodland, leaf imprints and animal tracks preserved in pumice and ashes reveal detailed insights into the (younger) Allerød environment. Five final Paleolithic (Federmessergruppen) habitation sites without any evident settlement structures but providing exogenous raw materials from outcrops in distances up to 170 km demonstrate the highly mobile mode of life of these hunter-gatherers groups some 13,000 years ago. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

A review of recent work on social complexity among prehistoric hunter-gatherers reveals tension between particularist and generalist approaches in archaeology. We identify two major divisions in approaches to complex hunter-gatherers: those that describe complexity vs. those that define it, and those that trace the origin of complexity to the emergence of inequality vs. those that trace it to the emergence of specialization. Authors who take a definitional approach to complexity tend to emphasize specialization and general law-like processes, while those that take a descriptive approach tend to emphasize inequality and historical context. interestingly, there is a near absence of theorists who seek to define complexity while emphasizing inequality or of theorists who tend to describe complexity while emphasizing specialization. We note that both descriptive-particularist and definitional-generalist approaches play an important role in the eventual solution of the problem of the origin of social complexity, one of the most theoretically difficult and important problems facing archaeology and anthropology in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to unparalleled conditions of preservation below volcanic ashes of the late glacial Laacher-See volcano, the Central Rhineland region, located at the geographic hinge between the North German Lowlands and the Highland zone, permits detailed insights into the environmental and vegetational history of the Allerød-Interstadial and has produced fundamental data for the reconstruction of the way of life of hunter-gatherer groups of that time. The recently investigated site of Bad Breisig, dating to the final part of the Allerød, is the first record of a Late Glacial human settlement of the Central Rhineland after the disastrous environmental destruction caused by the eruption of the Laacher-See volcano. The site is an important chronostratigraphic and typological key in the understanding of the development of the Final Palaeolithic technocomplex with backed points in Central Europe. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

An abstract of the dissertation "Les influences évolutionnistes et cognitives sur la localisation des établissements de chasseurs-cueilleurs dans le delta Yukon-Kuskokwim de l'Alaska," by Caroline L. Funk is presented.