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 …

▪ Abstract Traumatic injuries in ancient human skeletal remains are a direct source of
evidence for testing theories of warfare and violence that are not subject to the interpretative …

Bruce Trigger's new book is the first ever to examine the history of archaeology from
medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. At once stimulating and even …

The social anthropology of death 21 Cross-cultural generalizations and the New
Archaeology's search for middle range theory 27 Funerary practices: agency, power and …

Cutmarks made by stone tools, conchoidal flake scars from hammerstone percussion,
carnivore tooth marks, striations from sedimentary abrasion, and other surface modifications …

Cooking is a human universal that must have had widespread effects on the nutrition,
ecology, and social relationships of the species that invented it. The location and timing of its …

Recent developments in the study of early man have turned away from analysing fossil
remains as evidence of a single and inevitable process of evolution towards homo sapiens …

The ethnographic and ethnohistoric literature on a global sample of 96 recent hunting
peoples was surveyed to explore the relationships between weapons, prey body‐size, and …

The earliest sites at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania are among the best documented and most
important for studies of human evolution. This book investigates the behavior of hominids at …

Identification of fossil burned bones is commonly based on their black colour. While colour-
based identification is applicable to recent burned bones, fossil bones may be black due to …