Building an understanding of cultural innovations and the mechanisms of their dispersal, in
which new technologies, foods, or ideas were made available for adoption or rejection …

Until fairly recently, archaeological research has been directed primarily toward the centers
of societies rather than their perimeters. Yet frontiers and borders, precisely because they …

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In this chapter, I discuss the history and current debates of archaeology in Mainland
Southeast Asia to evaluate the past, present, and future of archaeological investigation …

Questions about archaeological scale have been inherent in the discipline for many years.
Archaeologists began to think about issues of scale as soon as they began to look beyond …

A critical evaluation of the existing data corpus on the earliest pottery in East Asia and its
chronology as of early 2013 is presented here. Pottery in the Old World emerged in three …

This volume examines the applicability of central place theory in contemporary
archaeological practice and thought in light of ongoing developments in landscape …

The study of frontiers, not only as physical boundaries but also as regions where a variety of
societies and cultures interact with each other, has become a prosperous field of research …

The terms “core,”“periphery,” and “frontier” conjure up spatial distinctions correlated with
divisions among societies based on size, economic organization, and power. Leaders of …

It is safe to say 2020 was a year unlike any other, bringing with it many professional and
personal challenges as the heritage and museums sectors continue to deal with the fallout …