This volume presents a comprehensive review of palaeoenvironmental evidence and its
incorporation with landscape archaeology from across the Mediterranean. A fundamental …

Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the principal etiologic agent of human
tuberculosis. It has no environmental reservoir and is believed to have co-evolved with its …

Farming transformed societies globally. Yet, despite more than a century of research, there
is little consensus on the speed or completeness of this fundamental change and …

A. Bernard Knapp presents a new island archaeology and island history of Bronze Age and
early Iron Age Cyprus, set in its Mediterranean context. Drawing out tensions between …

Differences in patterns of diet and subsistence through the analysis of dental pathology and
tooth wear were studied in skeletal populations of Natufian hunter‐gatherers (10,500–8300 …

Inundated archaeological sites dating from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Pottery Neolithic
periods have been exposed off the Mediterranean coast of Israel, mainly the northern …

Feasting is a powerful and transformative phenomenon. Societies are both integrated and
differentiated through feasting; identities are both enacted and altered; and ideologies are …

This article reassesses the timing, context, and impetus for the onset of sedentary, complex
hunter-gatherers, food production, and village life in the Near East during the Late …

This study addresses changes in health which were consequential to the Neolithic transition
in the southern Levant, judged on the basis of the study of specific and nonspecific stress …

Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation,
abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies …