This publication is a reflection of the fifth international meeting of Commission 27 on the Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age of the International Union of Pre- and Protohistoric Sciences, more commonly known after its French acronym as the UISPP.

The meeting took place in June 2010 in Les Eyzies as part of the annual meeting of the Societ de Pr histoire Francaise, which was held in Bordeaux and Les Eyzies.