Examining the place of the Swabian Jura within the Aurignacian world Nicholas Conard∗1, Guido Bataille2, Ewa Dutkiewicz2, Keiko Kitagawa2, Christopher Miller2, Sibylle Wolf2, and Michael Bolus2 1Universit´ede Tubingen (D´epartement de Pr´ehistoire){ Universit¨atT¨ubingenUr- und Fr¨uhgeschichte und Arch¨aologiedes Mittelalters Burgsteige 11 72070 T¨ubingen, Allemagne 2Eberhard Karls Universit¨atT¨ubingen{ Allemagne R´esum´e Since the initial excavation of Aurignacian finds at Bockstein Cave in the Lone Valley in the late 19th century, each generation of researchers has made important contributions to our understanding of the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura, southwestern Germany. Excavations since the late 1990s have yielded new results from Hohle Fels, Geißenkl´'osterle and Vogelherd and reexamination of previous collections has helped to complete a clear picture of many aspects of the Swabian Aurignacian. While open-air sites are rare, the region's caves have yielded many rich and well preserved assemblages that provide a wealth of useful contextual information about the lifeways of the makers of the Aurignacian. Here we review the current state of research and touch upon the cultural and chronostratig- raphy of the region as reflected in the key sites of the Ach, Lone and Lauchert valleys. This paper examines the excellent record of lithic artifacts and diverse classes of organic artifacts to consider both what are regionally unique and inter-regionally unifying elements of the Aurignacian. This exceptional record of numerous classes of cultural remains represents one of the key sources of information on this phase of the early Upper Palaeolithic. These results help to define the place of the Swabian Jura in the Aurignacian world. Mots-Cl´es: Aurignacian, Swabian Jura, Cultural Stratigraphy ∗Intervenant sciencesconf.org:uispp2018:179945.