The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

In the last decade, prehistoric archaeology in central Sudan and Nubia has been
characterised by a regional approach and the use of proper stratigraphic methods in …

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the
eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for …

Mortuary behavior (activities concerning dead conspecifics) is one of many traits that were
previously widely considered to have been uniquely human, but on which perspectives have …

The course of hominin evolution has involved successive migrations towards higher
absolute latitudes over the past three million years. Poorer habitat quality further from the …

Shell mounds have not been investigated as prominent ritual features in southern California,
despite evidence to the contrary. The largest extant shell mound in the region is on Santa …

The most significant change in hunter-gatherer studies has been the shift from expecting
hunter-gatherers to have similar properties wherever they are found to recognizing that …

The adoption of agriculture is one of the major developments in human history.
Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the trajectories of Neolithisation in Northwest …

This paper presents a heterarchical model for the regional occupation of the sambaqui
(shellmound) societies settled in the southern coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil …

Most archaeological projects today integrate, at least to some degree, how past people
engaged with their surroundings, including both how they strategized resource use …