This article reviews the available information on the founder grain crops (einkorn wheat,
emmer wheat, barley, lentil, pea, chickpea, and flax) that started agriculture in Southwest …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

The house mouse (Mus musculus) is the most successful and ubiquitous invasive mammal
after man (Lowe et al., 2000). This success is due to its commensal interaction with humans …

It is generally accepted that cats were first domesticated in ancient Egypt (1–3), at the latest
by the 20th to 19th century BC (Middle Kingdom, 12th dynasty)(4). However, several finds …

This introduction to the symposium and to this issue of Current Anthropology attempts to
provide some sense of the topic, the meeting itself, the participants, and some of the initial …

Recent archaeological investigations on Cyprus have unveiled unsuspected Late Glacial
and Early Holocene (twelfth–tenth millennia cal BP) pieces of the island's human history …

Early Neolithic sedentary villagers started cultivating wild cereals in the Near East 11,500 y
ago [Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)]. Recent discoveries indicated that Cyprus was …

Archaeology: An Introduction looks behind the popular aspects of archaeology such as the
discovery and excavation of sites, the study of human remains and animal bones …

The concept of an archaeological culture rarely features in any surveys of the literature of
modern archaeology, especially in the Anglo-American world. When it does …

The genetic impact associated to the Neolithic spread in Europe has been widely debated
over the last 20 years. Within this context, ancient DNA studies have provided a more …