In this article, we review the historical trajectory of bioarchaeology in Central Asia to draw
attention to the importance of previous archaeological and biological anthropology research …

Commenting on the organization of Middle Eastern societies in the millennia between the
origins of farming and the appearance of the rst cities, David Wengrow has remarked,'This …

In traditional Chinese historiography, the Zhou (1046–221 bce) were the third royal dynasty
in the ancient dynastic sequence, preceded by the Shang and Xia dynasties (2100–1046 …

No less eminent an observer of things archaeo logical and historical than James Deetz
(1988: 376) has recently suggested that historical archaeolo gy's" greatest utility" may be in …

Along with the need for more systematic and sustained archaeological research, equally
fundamental intellectual challenges must be addressed if archaeology is to make significant …

The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes
and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in the Near East and …

One of the key anthropological challenges of prehistoric archaeological research is to
investigate the ways that ancient humans and their ancestors adapted to different …