▪ Abstract Recent perspectives in anthropological research define a disaster as a
process/event involving the combination of a potentially destructive agent (s) from the …

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape,
have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary …

The societies of southern Central America and northern South America, a region historically
occupied by Chibchan-speaking peoples, have long been acknowledged as valuable …

Field Methods in Archaeology has been the leading source for instructors and students in
archaeology courses and field schools for 60 years since it was first authored in 1949 by the …

We summarize what is known about Archaic period occupation of southeastern
Mesoamerica and Central America as background for presenting new paleoenvironmental …

The study of volcanic hazards leads inevitably to questions of how past cultures have lived
in volcanically active regions of the world. Here we summarize linkages between …

▪ Abstract Any understanding of contemporary biodiversity change in the Americas is likely to
be uninformative and misleading if it employs a prehistoric baseline imbued with pristine …

Abstract Midden deposits from San Lorenzo indicate the Early Formative Olmec subsisted
on agricultural products such as maize as well as aquatic and terrestrial fauna. What is …

This paper presents the results of technological and morphological analyses carried out on
fluted point collections from North, Central, and South America. Technological similarities …

This chapter presents an overview of the history and principles of isotope analyses. It
provides specific details on the samples and procedures used in each study, and how their …