This paper is a charge against ethnoarchaeology. Deliberately provocative, it aims at
highlighting the flaws and ideological pitfalls of a sub-discipline whose actual contribution to …

For over 200 years, Western scholarship has presented Torres Strait variously as a bridge
and barrier to cultural influences between mainland New Guinea and Australia. An …

The famous Franchthi Cave excavations in Greece brought to light an exceptionally long
sequence of ornaments, spanning from the earliest Upper Paleolithic to the end of the …

Les controverses entre François Bordes et Lewis Binford sur l'interprétation des différents
facies du Moustérien ont été un élément déterminant du développement de la technologie …

Résumé En Italie, durant le Néolithique et l'Énéolithique, entre 6000 et 2000 cal. BC
environ, dans les industries lithiques se distinguent des lames débitées par une technique …

At the same time as large axes made of Alpine jade (ie jadeitite, eclogite, omphacitite and
other rock types) were circulating around much of western and central Europe, early …

The only pottery known to have been produced in the New Guinea Highlands is associated
with communities speaking Agarabi, a non-Austronesian language in the Eastern Highlands …

Today small ships can travel up the Sepik River as far as Ambunti some 200 km as the crow
flies from the sea (Figures 1–2). In pre-European times, contrary to expectation, trading …

During the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, many teeth of large sharks (Carcharhinus
leucas) and stingray spines were transformed into projectile points in south‐eastern Arabia …

Criticism of the use of ethnoarchaeology in archaeology is almost as old as the discipline
itself. This criticism appears to hinge on a number of issues. Firstly, its origins …