Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

Human behavioral ecology (HBE) began in the mid-1970s with the application of optimal
foraging models to hunter-gatherer decisions concerning resource selection and land use …

Much attention has been focused on control of fire in human evolution and the impact of
cooking on anatomy, social, and residential arrangements. However, little is known about …

Zooarchaeology is a detailed reference manual for students and professional archaeologists
interested in identifying and analysing animal remains from archaeological sites. Drawing …

Cutmarks made by stone tools, conchoidal flake scars from hammerstone percussion,
carnivore tooth marks, striations from sedimentary abrasion, and other surface modifications …

" 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 …

More than 40years ago Kent Flannery coined the term Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) in
reference to a broadening of the subsistence base of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in …

The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the
nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. Is human cooperation feasible without a …

Recent developments in the study of early man have turned away from analysing fossil
remains as evidence of a single and inevitable process of evolution towards homo sapiens …

The economic importance of bone fat to past peoples is discussed and the ethnography of
bone marrow and grease extraction is briefly outlined. Models for expected patterns of bone …