Combustion is a reactive oxidation process that releases energy bound in chemical
compounds used as fuels─ energy that is needed for power generation, transportation …

Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

INTRODUCTION Human speech manifests itself in spectacular diversity, ranging from
ubiquitous sounds such as “m” and “a” to the rare click consonants in some languages of …

Plastic waste is now a classic contaminant of the natural environment and the origins of the
contamination need to be well understood. The transition from a useful object to a waste …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important cereal grains in the world today and serves
as a staple food source for more than half of the world's population. Research into when …

Pottery was a hunter-gatherer innovation that first emerged in East Asia between 20,000 and
12,000 calibrated years before present,(cal bp), towards the end of the Late Pleistocene …

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 …

Phytolith remains of rice (Oryza sativa L.) recovered from the Shangshan site in the Lower
Yangtze of China have previously been recognized as the earliest examples of rice …

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing
Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and …

This article provides an introduction to and review of the field of computer-aided molecular
design (CAMD). It is intended to be approachable for the absolute beginner as well as useful …