The domestication of plants and animals over the past 11,500 years has had a significant
effect not just on the domesticated taxa but also on human evolution and on the biosphere …

Herbivore livestock dung has been identified in archaeological sites around the world.
Focusing on dung from the ubiquitous Old World herbivorous domesticates–sheep, goats …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

In many areas of the world, current theories for agricultural origins emphasize yield as a
major concern during intensification. In Africa, however, the need for scheduled …

Domestication is an ongoing co-evolutionary process rather than an event or invention.
Recent zooarchaeological and animal genetics research has prompted a thorough revision …

A review of recent research on complex hunter–gatherers in North America suggests that
age-old tensions between evolutionary and historical epistemologies continue to cultivate …

In Mediterranean and north-African regions, cultural trajectories have shown trends
sometimes coincident with climatic changes. The mid Holocene was a period of intense …

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 …

There is great uncertainty over the timing and magnitude of the termination of the African
Humid Period (AHP). Spanning from the early to middle Holocene, the AHP was a period of …

Nearly four decades have passed since an independent North African centre for cattle
domestication was first proposed in 1980, based on the Combined Prehistoric Expedition's …