The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most
important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of …

It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants
and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions regarding where, when, and …

The city as innovation machine. Regional Studies. This paper puts cities and urban regions
at the very centre of the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. It combines the …

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the
human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in …

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of
archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological …

This handbook is a translation of the French manual “Des céramiques et des hommes.
Décoder les assemblages archéologiques.”(2016, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest …

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 …

" 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 …

There seems to be a general feeling that some fundamental changes are underway in
archaeological thinking and have been for some time now. One need only look at some …

The last two decades have seen an explosion in research analysing cultural change as a
Darwinian evolutionary process. Here I provide an overview of the theory of cultural …