The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

This article reviews a number of research methodologies used to record household and
settlement architecture and assesses their value in the investigation of the human use of …

The scale and nature of early cultivation are topics that have received relatively limited
attention in research on the origins of agriculture. In Southwest Asia, one the earliest centers …

Archaeologists have proposed that quite a number of structures dating to the Pre-Pottery
Neolithic A and B in southwest Asia were nondomestic ritual buildings, sometimes described …

Fire-centred studies have recently been highlighted as powerful avenues for investigation of
energy flows and relations between humans, materials, environments and other species …

The only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology, this
innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of …

The macroevolutionary approach in archaeology represents the most recent example in a
long tradition of applying principles of biological evolution to the study of culture change …

This paper takes a comparative approach to early farming, arguing that bioarchaeological
work on Neolithic Europe can inform understanding of earlier cultivation and herding in the …

Comparison of two Turkish Neolithic sites with rich symbolism, Çatalhöyük and Göbekli,
suggests widespread and long-lasting themes in the early settled communities of the region …

This paper presents the first study that combines the use of ancient crop and animal stable
isotopes (carbon and nitrogen) and Zooarchaeology Mass Spectrometry species …