How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social
classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time …

This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture.
Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas …

Foodways have been a component of archaeological research for decades. However,
cooking and food preparation, as specific acts that could reveal social information about life …

At the Srubnaya-culture settlement of Krasnosamarskoe in the Russian steppes, dated 1900–
1700 BCE, a ritual occurred in which the participants consumed sacrificed dogs, primarily …

Abstract During the Middle Woodland period, from 200 BC to AD 600, southeastern societies
erected monuments, interacted widely, and produced some of the most striking material …

In 2012, archaeologists continued to grapple with large questions concerning process and
structure and how they shaped the nature of humanity. The movement of populations, ideas …

Excavations at Tel Burna, Israel, have uncovered portions of a large structure from the Late
Bronze Age IIB, yielding numerous finds that suggest ritual and cultic practices occurred in …

The phenomenon of the Spanish Conquest of the Maya region suggests strongly that, in the
process of socio-cultural transformation,'religion'has no meaning as a concept with its own …

We analyzed limpets ('opihi, Cellana spp.) deposited at a shrine and two habitation
structures from a late prehistoric (post ad 1500) contemporaneous residential complex on …

Around 1500 years ago, the Coast Salish peoples of southwestern British Columbia began
to inter their dead within funerary petroforms. These burials, consisting of patterned …