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 term archaeomineralogy is relatively new. It was used by Mitchell (1985) for a brief
bibliography, by Rapp (2002, 2009) for books, and by Kostov et al.(2008) and Rapp (2008) …

After almost three centuries of investigations into the question of what it means to be human
and the historical processes of becoming human, archaeologists have amassed a huge …

Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid
regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left …

The Southern Levant was a thriving centre of religious and cultural exchange during the
Bronze Age.'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant'provides an …

The fifth millennium BCE was a period of rapid social change. One of the key factors was the
developments in technology which led to the rise of the metals industry. Archaeological finds …

The literature of stone tool procurement and technology published in the past decade is
reviewed in this article. The presentation attempts to be geographically comprehensive but …

While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval
times, they have paid less attention to those who traveled across borders with some …

The onset of Little Ice Age conditions in California's Sierra Nevada mountains resulted in
increased temporal and spatial variability, and hence uncertainty regarding the distribution …

Non-destructive pXRF has the potential to expand sample populations of archaeological
provenancing studies by facilitating access to museum collections of artefacts. In this study …