This volume publishes two large articles in German written by D. and U. Mania. Both have rich illustrations: maps, stratigraphic sections, drawings of stone and bone artefacts. The first paper gives a detailed analysis of bone tools made by Homo erectus uncovered at the world famous Bilzingsleben site, south-east Germany, with 65 figures.

The 12 articles, 10 in English and 2 in French, published in the volume mainly yield information on new discoveries. Four of them have been made in Hungary. L. Kordos carried out palaeontological investigations at the Middle Pleistocene sites of Castle Hill, Budapest, contemporary to the Vértessz?l?s site.

This volume illustrates the world-wide character of Prehistory with 6 papers in English and 6 in French. Europe is represented by site studies (Payre in South-east France by M.-H. Moncel, Mitoc-Malu Galben in East Rumania by V. Chirica and M. V?leanu), as well as by regional syntheses (Pavlovian by J. Svoboda, Magdalenian by M. Lenoir).