Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Digital archaeology is both a pervasive practice and a unique subdiscipline within
archaeology. The diverse digital methods and tools employed by archaeologists have led to …

The Cambridge Manual to Archaeological Network Science provides the first
comprehensive guide to a field of research that has firmly established itself within …

Sustainability outcomes are influenced by the laws and configurations of natural and
engineered systems as well as activities in socio-economic systems. An important subset of …

Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although
our local impact on the evolution of these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively …

Recycling behaviors are becoming increasingly recognized as important parts of the
production and use of stone tools in the Paleolithic. Yet, there are still no well-defined …

Background: There is a wide variety of potential sources from which insight into the
antiquities trade could be culled, from newspaper articles to auction catalogues, to court …

Analyzing the spatial and temporal properties of information flow with a multi-century
perspective could illuminate the sustainability of human resource-use strategies. This paper …

Agent-based modelling allows researchers to build artificial pastoral systems that are
spatially explicit and allow for the examination of complex interactions between households …

Throughout the history of archaeology, researchers have evaluated human societies in
terms of systems and systems interactions. Complex systems theory (CST), which emerged …