Fire use has played an important role in human evolution and subsequent dispersals across
the globe, yet the relative importance of human activity and climate on fire regimes is …

Bone grease rendering is a low-return activity well described in the ethnohistorical and
ethnographic literature. However, identifying this activity in archaeological contexts is …

Abstract The Lower Palaeolithic, Middle Pleistocene locality Schöningen has been a focus
of archaeological research for over two decades. The locality is best-known for the discovery …

Abstract Models in demographic ecology predict that populations in agrarian villages
experience cycles of growth and decline as tied to relationships between founding …

ABSTRACT Post-Clovis Paleoindians living on the North American Great Plains are often
thought to have been dedicated bison hunters, fulfilling most of their food needs from this …

Euroamericans who encountered the Blackfoot in the late 19th century believed that these
Plains bison hunters held the Rocky Mountains in awe and fear, preferring to remain on the …

The dynamic relationship between horses and nomadic peoples has a long history of study
within pastoralist research worldwide. In the Plains of North America, however, the story of …

The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey explores the social and functional
aspects of large-scale hunting adaptations in the archaeological record. Mass-kill hunting …

This paper examines chronological methods for reoccupied archaeological sites with
surface arrangements of stone features in the alpine tundra. It is challenging to interpret …

This doctoral dissertation revisits the horse in Blackfoot culture in order to explore how its
adoption altered Blackfoot hunting practices and landscape uses during the Contact Period …