This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late
Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to assess to what …

Raw counts of archaeological sites, estimates of changing settlement size and summed
radiocarbon probability distributions have all become popular ways to investigate long-term …

The increasing availability of large-scale genetic datasets has made it possible to ask
detailed questions about the structure of human genetic diversity, and what that structure …

When studying the human settlement process, it is of great significance to understand the
prehistoric environment, economy and society by exploring the human–land relationship …

Anthropologists have determined that shamanism is a robust cross-cultural pattern, but they
still have many methodological and theoretical issues to resolve. Central to archaeological …

An ever more Pacific-looking past of Britain and other parts of Europe is being constructed
by archaeologists. Melanesian anthropology is being continually mined for supposed …

This study presents an analysis of various aspects relating to the changes in cooking
vessels during the Iron Age in Philistia and the southern Levant, with particular emphasis on …

Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an
active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than …

This paper provides a method-and theory-focused assessment of religious behavior based
on cross-cultural research that provides an empirically derived model as a basis for making …

Site size hierarchy is an archaeological pattern commonly used to identify regional political
hierarchy in state-level and stateless middle-range societies. Although a number of …