Spatial technology is integral to how archaeologists collect, store, analyze, and represent
information in digital data sets. Recent advances have improved our ability to look for and …

In the 1970s and 1980s, regional analysis was an influential part of archaeological research,
providing a discrete set of geographical tools inspired by a processual epistemological and …

Historians and archaeologists define primary states—" cradles of civilization" from which all
modern nation states ultimately derive—as significant territorially-based, autonomous …

Before European contact, Hawaii supported large human populations in complex societies
that were based on multiple pathways of intensive agriculture. We show that soils within a …

Pedogenic thresholds occur where soil properties change abruptly and/or nonlinearly with a
small increment in environmental forcing; soil process domains are the regions between …

The human ecodynamics approach in archaeology privileges landscape as a core concept,
asserting that there can be no environment or ecosystem detached from humans and their …

Intensive agricultural systems interact strongly and reciprocally with features of the lands
they occupy, and with features of the societies that they support. We modeled the distribution …

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance
mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure …

Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the
West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai 'i, Tahiti, or …

Niche construction theory has played a prominent role in archaeology during the last
decade. However, the potential of niche construction in relation to agricultural development …