Abstract The Upper Paleolithic represents both the phase during which anatomically modern
humans appeared and the climax of hunter–gatherer cultures. Demographic expansion into …

The Neolithisation of Europe has seen the transformation of hunting-gathering societies into
farming communities. At least partly exogenous in its origins, this process led to major …

We have measured the 14C content of human femoral mid‐shaft collagen to determine the
dynamics of adult collagen turnover, using the sudden doubling and subsequent slow …

This review charts the developments and progress made in the application of stable light
isotope tools to palaeodietary adaptations from the 1970s onwards. It begins with an outline …

Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds
cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet'the body'is also highly contested …

Stable isotope signatures of both human and non-human animal bone samples indicate that
Neolithic farmers of the Yellow and Wei River basins in China potentially cultivated millet for …

Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the
Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and …

The study of the proportions of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen which survive in
ancient human and animal bones offers highly suggestive indications of ancient diets …

Agricultural foods and technologies are thought to have eased the mechanical demands of
diet—how often or how hard one had to chew—in human populations worldwide. Some …

Postprocessual views of the transition to agriculture in Northwestern Europe have sought to
decouple ideology and subsistence economy as a means of protecting the status of ideology …