This book is about historical archaeologies all over the world; about their history, their
methods, and their raison d'etre. The focus is on an existential question for archaeology …

Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution
in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in …

In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on the
long-term development of a settlement. It is costly to move settlements, or to demolish and …

This paper presents a thermal model for the prehistoric origin and development of clothing.
A distinction is drawn between simple and complex forms of clothing, with broad implications …

Focal topics for volumes in the series will include systematic paleontology of all vertebrates
(from agnathans to humans), phylogeny reconstruction, functional morphology, Paleolithic …

A paradigmatic account may suffice to explain behavioral evolution in early Homo. We
propose a parsimonious account that (1) could explain a particular, frequently-encountered …

Statistical manipulation of large radiometric data sets (big data) is increasingly applied to
those grand challenges in archaeology that relate to past human‐behavioural dynamics and …

Prior to the early 1950s, Americanist archaeologists, given their interest in chronology,
routinely searched for direct historical connections between ethnographically documented …

The public's fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal
with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. How archaeologists …

At Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar biostratigraphy and palaeomagnetism indicate
a time in the late Early Pleistocene (ie somewhat before the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary of …