In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a
human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it …

Over the past decade, evidence has been mounting that our ancestors developed skills to
sail across large bodies of water early in prehistory. In this fascinating volume, Alan …

Air and sea transport is crucial to link islands with each other and with mainland. In the case
of archipelagos, connectivity is based on the hub and spoke network model and is …

Obsidian has long been recognised as a proxy for tracing long-distance interaction and
exchange. In this thesis, I use these lithics to examine the directionality, intensity and nature …

Las representaciones esquemáticas del abrigo de Laja Alta (Jimena de la Frontera,
España) son el testimonio más claro de la existencia en la antigüedad de embarcaciones a …

The marine environment plays a central role in the migration of Homo sapiens to Sahul c.
65,000 years ago. Despite the lower mean sea level at this time, humans must have made a …

This chapter discusses the historical and archaeological data available for the dense cluster
of regional states in western Syria, Lebanon, and northernmost Palestine during the Late …

This chapter concerns sites on the Anatolian plateau (hereafter AP) that represent the fullest
realization of urban society on the Anatolian peninsula during the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) …

Most studies of ancient maritime activity on the Dead Sea focus on the Hellenistic to the
Early Byzantine periods, for which a rich body of archaeological and historic data exists …

Modeling of spreading processes has gained a lot of attention in the last decades, since theseprocessesplayacrucialroleinunderstan…
-worldsystems, that span biological, technical, economical and social sciences. 1 Different …