The prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) is rising for reasons that are not fully understood. In this
Opinion article, we review the possibility that OA is an evolutionary mismatch disease, which …

Cover--Half-title--Title page--Copyright information--Dedication--Table of contents--List of
figures--Preface--Acknowledgments--Chapter 1 Introduction: The Social Life of food--The …

The retrieval and re-deposition of elements of the human skeleton, especially the skull (ie,
cranium and mandible), is a common feature of Neolithic Near Eastern funerary practices. A …

The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

The transition from a human diet based exclusively on wild plants and animals to one
involving dependence on domesticated plants and animals beginning 10,000 to 11,000 y …

Çatalhöyük is one of the most well-known and important Neolithic/Chalcolithic sites in the
Middle East. Settlement at the site encompasses two separate tell mounds known as …

We survey archaeological evidence suggesting that among hunter-gatherers and farmers in
Neolithic western Eurasia (11,700 to 5,300 years ago) elevated levels of wealth inequality …

Cultural inheritance is a central issue in archaeology. If variation were not inherited, cultures
could not evolve. Some archaeologists have dismissed cultural evolutionary theory in …

This paper argues that the search for an overarching explanation for the adoption of farming
and settled life in the Middle East can be enhanced by a consideration of the dependencies …

Objectives The presence of a gendered subdivision of labor has been bioarchaeologically
investigated in various prehistoric and historical contexts. Little is known, however, about the …