Neandertals are the best-studied of all extinct hominins, with a rich fossil record sampling
hundreds of individuals, roughly dating from between 350,000 and 40,000 years ago. Their …

Researchers who analyze stone tools and their production debris have made significant
progress in understanding the relationship between stone tools and human organizational …

When searching for food, many organisms adopt a superdiffusive, scale-free movement
pattern called a Lévy walk, which is considered optimal when foraging for heterogeneously …

Criminology tries to explain crime and criminal behaviour. This poses longstanding
questions: Why do only some people commit crimes? Why are some people re-victimised …

Development of the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) before 300,000 years ago raises the
question of how environmental change influenced the evolution of behaviors characteristic …

Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although
understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural …

This paper provides an up-to-date history of archaeological computer simulation, starting
with the early 1970s simulation models, but paying particular attention to those developed …

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 …

Research into the processes that form the archaeological record is an important component
of archaeological practice because formation processes are a key link between the …

During the Middle Palaeolithic in the south-eastern Massif Central and the bordering Rhone
Valley, humans collected almost all their raw materials from various secondary outcrop …