Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

The places in which people live, sleep, prepare food, and undertake other activities—known
variably as homes, residential sites, living sites, and domestic spaces—play a key role in the …

Since the 1980s, research into aggregation sites has focused on the material dimension of
the archaeological record and has thus led to an incomplete view of the prehistoric reality …

Most archaeological projects today integrate, at least to some degree, how past people
engaged with their surroundings, including both how they strategized resource use …

The end of the Pleistocene in Southwest Asia is widely known for the emergence of socially-
complex hunter-gatherers—the Natufians—characterized by a rich material culture record …

Humanity's relationship with the environment during the Holocene, and into the
Anthropocene, is structured around our dependance on agricultural production, which has …

Abstract Between 23 and 11.5 ka Epipaleolithic groups of Southwest Asia initiated and
experienced dramatic changes—on a previously unprecedented scale—in economy and …

Summing up the data deriving from the Natufian burials at Hayonim Cave which
incorporates information pertaining to the last grave uncovered on site (Grave XVII), the …

At the end of the last Ice Age in a valley bottom in the Rocky Mountains, a group of bison
hunters overwintered. Through the analysis of more than 75,000 pieces of chipped stone …

Loess is a main archive of Pleistocene landscapes and environments and therefore has an
important connection to the preservation and interpretation of Paleolithic sites. In Europe …