The Emergent Past approaches archaeological research as an engagement within an
assemblage-a particular configuration of materials, things, places, humans, animals, plants …

Over a decade of experimental lithic use-wear analysis using laser profilometry has led to
the development of a method to measure surface modification due to wear in a reliable …

Many uncertainties and doubts often arise when students, researchers and professionals of
archaeology start the study of the huge amount of ceramic sherds collected in …

This paper provides constraints on the evolution of the landscape in the Cradle of
Humankind (CoH), UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Africa, since the Pliocene. The aim …

Owing to the prevalence of fractal patterns in natural scenery and their growing impact on
cultures around the world, fractals constitute a common feature of our daily visual …

A specialized presentation of fractal analysis oriented to the social sciences This primer
uses straightforward language to give the reader step-by-step instructions for identifying and …

This book describes a unique way of measuring, analysing and comparing buildings using
fractal dimensions. A fractal dimension is a mathematical determination of the typical or …

Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now
Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped …

The diffusion of water through the surface of archaeological obsidian is mainly a
temperature-dependent and concentration driven phenomenon that forms the basis of the …

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social
scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its …