The Palaeolithic Societies of EuropePalaeolithic societies have been a neglected topic in the discussion of human origins. But in the past forty years archaeologists have recovered a wealth of information from Palaeolithic sites throughout the European continent that reveal many illuminating facets of social life over this 500,000 year period. Clive Gamble, introducing a new approach to this material, interrogates the data for information on the scale of social interaction, and the