Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human
colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (eg, similar sized or larger than the
consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use …

Palaeoenvironmental records from the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge (BLB) covering
the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present are needed to document changing …

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive
overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed …

Abstract Cobbles from the Cerutti Mastodon (CM) site have impact marks and usewear
suggesting that mastodon bones were placed on stone anvils and struck with stone …

The taphonomic analysis of surface modifications on bones is crucial for reconstructing the
past, but it can be influenced by various trephic processes, including cleaning interventions …

Taphonomic analyses of bone-surface modifications can provide key insights into past biotic
involvement with animal remains, as well as elucidate the context (s) of other biostratinomic …

In a 2017 article, Holen and colleagues reported evidence for a 130 000-year-old
archaeological site in California. Acceptance of the site would overturn current …

Let us begin simply: the criticisms of Magnani et al.(2019) and others (eg Braje et al. 2017;
Haynes 2017, 2018; Ferraro et al. 2018) regarding the Cerutti Mastodon site are valid and …