Once considered a backwater of New World prehistory, the Caribbean has now emerged
from the archaeological shadows as a critical region for answering a host of questions …

From mobile hunter-gatherers to a series of state societies, Mediterranean climate regions
(MED) around the world have been critical areas for human and biological evolution for …

This is the final volume of the SPLASHCOS research network and marks the completion of
an international and collaborative survey to compile and evaluate the known records of …

Climate change impacts island communities all over the world. Sea-level rise, an increase in
the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, and changes in distribution and health …

Abstract The process of Near Eastern neolithization and its westward expansion from the
core zone in the Levant and upper Mesopotamia has been broadly discussed in recent …

Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend
beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains …

The antiquity of human dispersal into Mediterranean islands and ensuing coastal adaptation
have remained largely unexplored due to the prevailing assumption that the sea was a …

Over the past decade, evidence has been mounting that our ancestors developed skills to
sail across large bodies of water early in prehistory. In this fascinating volume, Alan …

Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African
contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are unusual in the broader African …

Historically, archaeologists have pursued two basic approaches to prehistoric Caribbean
colonization: those relying on historical narratives and those informed by theoretical …