Since its inception, archaeology has traditionally focused exclusively on humans and our
direct ancestors. However, recent years have seen archaeological techniques applied to …

One of the greatest difficulties with evolutionary approaches in the study of stone tools
(lithics) has been finding a mechanism for tying culture and biology in a way that preserves …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …

Archaeological assemblages labeled as Initial Upper Paleolithic are often seen as possible
evidence for dispersals of Homo sapiens populations in Eurasia, ca. 45,000 years ago …

Lithic researchers rely heavily on experimentation to infer past behaviors and activities
based on stone artifacts. This paper explores the analogical nature of archaeological …

The Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and
how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic …

How the boundaries of the mind should be drawn with respect to action and the material
world is a core research question that cognitive archaeology shares with contemporary …

In prehistoric human populations, technologies played a fundamental role in the acquisition
of different resources and are represented in the main daily living activities, such as with …

Archaeological evidence informs our understanding of the evolution of hominin behaviour.
Such evidence is traditionally used to reconstruct hominin activities and intentions. In the …