The timing of the human settlement of Madagascar, one of the last large landmasses to be
settled by people, remains a key topic of debate in archaeology. Despite decades of …

A new timescale has recently been established for human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
lineages, making mtDNA at present the most informative genetic marker system for studying …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story,
mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that …

The importance of chronology is reasserted as a means to achieving history and a sense of
temporality. A range of current methods for estimating the dates and durations of …

Few events of European prehistory are more important than the transition from ancient to
modern humans around 40 000 years ago, a period that unfortunately lies near the limit of …

Background Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around
whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with …

Radiocarbon dates form the basis of many archaeological chronologies that span the last
50,000 years. Since the first studies in the early 1950s the method has changed almost …

A link between climate change and human evolution during the Pleistocene has often been
assumed but rarely tested. At the macro–evolutionary level Foley showed for hominids that …

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current
knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of …