A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship
with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the …

This review explores why phenomenology has been such a popular theme in landscape
archaeology in the last two decades—and why it has also provoked anger and controversy …

" Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our
great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive …

Theory and empirical data from a variety of disciplines strongly imply that recent human
history involves extensive gene-culture coevolution, much of it as a direct result of human …

Hominin evolution has involved a continuous process of addition of new kinds of cognitive
capacity, including those relating to manufacture and use of tools and to the establishment of …

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …

Today, humans inhabit most of the world's terrestrial habitats. This observation has been
explained by the fact that we possess a secondary inheritance mechanism, culture, in …

The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical
sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in such terms as' social contagion'in …

Prehistoric hunter-gatherer population size is often assumed to follow climatic and other
environmental forcings that affect environmental productivity and the availability of food for …

Modes of cultural transmission are, by analogy with modes of genetic transmission, ways in
which cultural information is transmitted between individuals. Despite its importance across …