BACKGROUND The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are located in Africa and dated to the
late Middle Pleistocene. At some point later, modern humans dispersed into Asia and …

The dominant emerging materials from more than 30 years ago are plastics, ceramics, and
composite materials. Composite materials have steady growth in the volume and number of …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

For many years, intuition and common sense often guided the transference of patterning
ostensibly evident in experimental flintknapping results to interpretations of the …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Lithic raw material differences are widely assumed to be a major determining factor of
differences in stone tool morphology seen across archaeological sites, but the security of …

A large part of our material culture is made of organic materials, and this was likely the case
also during prehistory. Amongst this prehistoric organic material culture are textiles and …

Despite almost a century of research, the Chinese Paleolithic chronocultural sequence still
remains incomplete, although the number of well-dated sites is rapidly increasing. The …

This article reviews the archaeology and chronology of the Chinese Upper Paleolithic and
the human fossils attributed to this period. The onset of the Upper Paleolithic in China dates …

A long-standing debate in Pleistocene archaeology concerns the sources of variation in the
technology of colonizing hunter-gatherers. One prominent example of this debate is Clovis …