Exactly how modern humans evolved is a subject of intense debate. This book deals with
the evolution of modern humans from an archaic ancestor and the differentiation of modern …

Burials are a common part of the cultural remains left by previous societies and as such
have a great deal of potential for archaeological study. As the last and most disruptive of …

Lithics in the Land of the Lightning Brothers skilfully integrates a wide range of data-raw-
material procurement, tool design, reduction and curation, patterns of distribution and …

Depictions of battle scenes, skirmishes and hand-to-hand combat are rare in hunter-
gatherer art and when they do occur most often result from contact with agriculturalist or …

Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with
information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short …

The rise of cemeteries, extreme biological diversification, size decrease, increased violence,
disappearance of megafauna, exploitation of different resources, evolution of rivers to an …

The'Intensification Debate'of the 1980s was a critical especially regarding demographic,
socioeconomic and period in the investigation of Australian prehistory. It sociocultural …

The value of quantitative infracranial nonmetric variation is examined in the study of
population relationships by using samples from populations originating from five major …

Stepwise discriminant function analysis and Mahalanobis's generalized distance are
applied to 36 measurements recorded in crania from Australasia and Oceania for assessing …

The human skeletal remains of a minimum of 152 individuals from the precontact Latte
Period (AD 1000–1521) on Guam, Mariana Islands, are described. The sample, recovered …