A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship
with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the …

This review provides a road map through current trends and issues in archaeological
studies of memory. Many scholars continue to draw on Halbwachs for collective memory …

Kim Sterelny here builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and
interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved …

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 …

Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This
grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of 'domestication'as …

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 …

It has long been speculated that increasing demands for cereals for the purposes of brewing
beer led to domestication in the Near Eastern Natufian cultures. While the question of …

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 …

The Neolithic of the Near East is a period of human development which saw fundamental
changes in the nature of human society. It is traditionally studied for its development of …

Shortly after his retirement from a distinguished career in the Department of Archaeology at
Edinburgh, the author gave the Rhind Lectures for 2009, bringing together his thoughts …