The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year
journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue …

This article reconsiders how archaeologists find Indigenous people, particularly Native
Americans, in past colonial communities. Significant progress has been made in studying …

By 200 BC a series of expansive polities emerged in Inner Asia that would dominate the
history of this region and, at times, a very large portion of Eurasia for the next 2,000 years …

Three key themes consistently play a role in the study of early state formation in eastern
Inner Asia. First, scholars have frequently argued that China exerted a disproportionately …

For this second case study, I modeled routes between islands in the Greater and the Lesser
Antilles in the Late Ceramic Age (AD 1200–1500). Inter-island interaction during this period …

Archaeologically informed history is vital for examining the consequences of emergent
colonialism in the nineteenth century and earlier, since documentary sources are silent on …

After briefly examining the forms of cultural contact in pre-and protohistoric societies in
relation to the problem of the varying perception of territories and their “borders” as well as of …

The Romans founded colonies throughout Italy and the provinces from the early Republic
through the high Empire. Far from being mere 'bulwarks of empire,'these colonies were …

Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations
were affected by population movement. It critiques both traditional culture-history-grounded …

During the 1850s and 1860s, Chinese immigrants played a major role in the development of
the fishing industries in Australia. Prior to their involvement, the industry was hampered by …