Abstract Design theory provides a useful means for analyzing both practical and prestige
technologies, although the goals and constraints of each are very different. The aggrandizer …

Theory in North American archaeology is characterized in terms of foci and approaches
manifested in research issues, rather than in explicit or oppositional theoretical positions …

A review of recent research on complex hunter–gatherers in North America suggests that
age-old tensions between evolutionary and historical epistemologies continue to cultivate …

Archaeological data on the long history of interaction between indigenous people and
salmon have rarely been applied to conservation management. When joined with …

In 1990, Binford argued that logistical mobility strategies… are the consequence of two
major evolutionary changes that occurred long ago:(1) the “aquatic resource revolution” with …

The archaeological record shows the presence of medium-sized dogs with mesocephalic
skulls in Southeast South America, from at least the end of the third millennium BP to …

Extremely lavish funeral feasts are common and expensive in many village and chiefdom
societies. Anthropologists and politicians often explain such apparently economically …

The cognitive and social capacities of Neandertals have been questioned by a number of
authors, while others suggest that such capacities did not differ markedly from those of …

Chemical analysis of residues contained in the matrix of stone smoking pipes reveal a
substantial direct biomolecular record of ancient tobacco (Nicotiana) smoking practices in …

Advocates of traditional, agriculture-based models of sociopolitical evolution argue that the
adoption of domesticates is requisite for developments such as sedentism, village life …