This review provides a critical examination of the voluminous literature on present and past
relations between hunter-gatherers and farming peoples. Pas-toralist populations also have …

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 …

Page 1 Human Beginnings in South Africa Uncovering the Secrets of the Stone Age HJ
Deacon & Janette Deacon Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Human Beginnings in South …

Skeletons represent the most direct evidence of the biology of past populations, and their
study provides insight into health and well-being, dietary history, lifestyle (activity), violence …

Covering the entire continent from Morocco, Libya, and Egypt in the north to the Cape of
Good Hope in the south, and the surrounding islands from Cape Verde in the west to …

Recent archaeological research has identified a widespread southern African rock art
tradition that materially affects the debate over what archaeology can tell us about prehistory …

Aim Human skeletal repositories are crucial resources for research and education in human
biology, variation, anatomy, biocultural frameworks, forensic/medico-legal casework …

African archaeology has primarily been concerned with precolonial Africa. Consequently,
the archaeology of colonial and postcolonial Africa has been neglected, in spite of the …

Over the past 40 years, traditional perspectives on the constitution of human groups have
been subjected to stringent critique within anthropology. This began with the dismantling of …

As indicators of the intensity and frequency of muscle activity, the rugosity and size of muscle
insertion areas in human skeletal remains may provide a record of average work effort in …