Abstract During the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (c. 6500–4000 BP), the Fertile
Crescent in Southwest Asia saw the earliest development of cities anywhere in the world …

Throughout the history of archaeology, researchers have evaluated human societies in
terms of systems and systems interactions. Complex systems theory (CST), which emerged …

Reliable quantitative vegetation reconstructions for Europe during the Holocene are crucial
to improving our understanding of landscape dynamics, making it possible to assess the …

Archaeological evidence suggests that important shifts were taking place in the character of
human social behaviours 300,000 to 30,000 years ago. New artefact types appear and are …

For almost 300 years wealthy Palmyrenes commemorated their deceased with portraits set
up in elaborate family tombs. Now we can use this wealth of information to reconstruct the …

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking
in search of a suitable framework to explore social complexity in Archaeology. Social …

Postmodernity has a distinctly pre‐apocalyptic feel to it, and this feeling has seeped into
archaeology. A review of the scholarship from 2019 attests that archaeologists are having to …

Abstract The Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project revealed a robust and
striking pattern of the extreme dominance (> 99%) of locally produced ceramics over six …

This paper explores the potential for Assemblage Theory to contribute to current approaches
in network thinking in Archaeology. I argue that Assemblage Theory offers improved …

Archaeologists are using spatial data in increasingly sophisticated analyses and invoking
more explicit considerations of space in their interpretations. Geographic information …