Spatial technology is integral to how archaeologists collect, store, analyze, and represent
information in digital data sets. Recent advances have improved our ability to look for and …

This is a critical review of regional settlement pattern archaeology published in the last
decade. The regional approach proves to be highly productive of new ideas and lasting …

The late pre-Hispanic period in the US Southwest (AD 1200–1450) was characterized by
large-scale demographic changes, including long-distance migration and population …

Although the cultural and nutritive importance of the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) to
precontact Native Americans and contemporary people worldwide is clear, little is known …

Change is inevitable, but some changes and transformations are more dramatic and fraught
with suffering than others. Resilience theory suggests the concept of a “rigidity trap” as an …

Archaeologists have regarded social networks as both the links through which people
transmitted information and goods as well as a form of social storage creating relationships …

This paper explores processes of settlement aggregation among ancestral Huron-Wendat
populations in south-central Ontario, Canada. During the fifteenth century AD, numerous …

The Cibola region on the Arizona–New Mexico border has fascinated archaeologists for
more than a century. The region's core is recognized as the ancestral homeland of the …

Archaeologists have made great strides in understanding prehistoric migration, yet they
have tended to focus on only part of the continuum of human movement. In nonstate …

Analyzing historical trajectories of social interactions at varying scales can lead to
complementary interpretations of relationships among archaeological settlements. We use …