This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Africa's Middle Stone Age (MSA) may have lasted almost half a million years, but its earliest
expression is not yet well understood. The MSA is best known for innovations that appear in …

Evidence of Oldowan tools by∼ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may signal a major adaptive shift
in hominin evolution. While tool-dependent butchery of large mammals was important by at …

The role of starchy plants in early hominin diets and when the culinary processing of
starches began have been difficult to track archaeologically. Seed collecting is …

Together with the disciplines of palaeoanthropology and genetics, archaeological finds and
studies on material dating to the Middle Stone Age of sub-Saharan Africa have changed the …

The late phases of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the East African Rift System (EARS) are
known for their evolutionary shifts and association with bottlenecks, transcontinental …

Background Despite the high prevalence rate of mental health problems among young
prisoners, little is known about the longitudinal course and covariates of their mental health …

The processes that led to the transition from small mobile groups of hunter-gatherers in the
Late Pleistocene to sedentary communities of the Early Holocene in north China are poorly …

Dental calculus is increasingly recognized as a major reservoir of dietary information.
Palaeodietary studies using plant and animal micro remains (eg phytoliths, pollen, sponge …

Hilary Deacon's seminal paper (1993) in the South African Archaeological Bulletin was
instrumental in promoting the notion that geophytes, or underground storage organs, were a …