For millennia, forest ecosystems in California have been shaped by fire from both natural
processes and Indigenous land management, but the notion of climatic variation as a …

The future of archaeological science relies as much (if not more) on theoretical as on
methodological developments. As with anything in biology, explaining past human behavior …

" A provocative and innovative reexamination of the trajectory of sociopolitical evolution
among Native American groups in California, this book explains the region's prehistorically …

The conventional theory about the origin of the state is that the adoption of farming
increased land productivity, which led to the production of food surplus. This surplus was a …

Humans modify their environments in ways that significantly transform the earth's
ecosystems. Recent research suggests that such niche‐constructing behaviors are not …

Research examining institutionalized hierarchy tends to focus on chiefdoms and states,
while its emergence among small-scale societies remains poorly understood. Here, we test …

Originally designed to explain causes of increased productivity in agricultural systems, the
concept of intensification has become widely linked to hunter-gatherer archaeology …

This study presents the first directly dated physical evidence of crop remains from the Early
Neolithic archaeological layers in Taiwan. Systematic sampling and analysis of macro-plant …

Middle Holocene hunter—gatherers (HG) of the Cis-Baikal region, Eastern Siberia, display
substantial spatio-temporal variation in adaptive strategies highlighted by several cultural …

Ceramic technology makes an abrupt appearance in the New World Arctic at circa 2800 cal
BP. While there is general consensus that the ultimate source of these Alaskan pottery …