A critical analysis of the debate that has surrounded the emergence of “modern behavior”
during the last two decades and new ways to study material culture and human-environment …

The development of the Out of Africa model for the origins and dispersal of modern humans
in the 1980s and 1990s led the field of paleoanthropology to drop other approaches to the …

Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling
and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. The much-discussed split between advocates …

Many researchers assume that until 10–12,000 years ago, humans lived in small, mobile,
relatively egalitarian bands. This “nomadic-egalitarian model” suffuses the social sciences. It …

In this article, I distinguish between evolutionary and historical perspectives on the past,
adopting the concept of “social fields” to argue for a macrohistorical interpretation of the …

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 …

The 145th symposium of the Wenner-Gren Foundation took place June 1–8, 2012, in
Häringe Slott near Stockholm, Sweden. The primary goal of the symposium was to reframe …

A moment's reflection will show that the various analytical units commonly used by
paleolithic archaeologists in western Eurasia (eg, Aurignacian, Mousterian) are 'accidents of …

An historical approach to the study of Paleolithic cultural evolution considers it a long
sequence linking universally relevant events that lead to change in human behavior …

The archaeological record shows that typically human cultural traits emerged at different
times, in different parts of the world, and among different hominin taxa. This pattern suggests …