This was the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from
the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Syria has become a prime focus of field …

In the southern Levant, the late fifth millennium to mid-fourth millennium BC—traditionally
known as the Chalcolithic period—witnessed major cultural transformations in virtually all …

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 …

Encountering the World reorients modern psychology by finding a viable middle ground
between the study of nerve cells and cultural analysis. The emerging field of ecological …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

Over the past 11,000 years humans have brought a wide variety of animals under
domestication. Domestic animals belong to all Linnaean animal classes—mammals, birds …

Jack Harlan was a polymath. His life-long study of crop evolution combined plant sciences,
archaeology, systematics, genetics, and conservation, leaving a legacy of five decades 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 …

The program presents anthropology's core concepts and also demonstrates anthropology's
relevance to the 21st-century world we inhabit. Key themes of appreciating the experiences …

The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with an updated description of the
archeological evidence for the origins of agriculture in the Near East. Specifically, I will …