Anthropologists have a long history of applying concepts from evolutionary biology to
cultural evolution. Evolutionary biologists, however, have been slow to turn to anthropology …

Abbo and Gopher contend that we offer nothing new to the study of domestication in three
recent papers (Bogaard et al., 2021; Allaby et al., 2021, Allaby et al., 2022b). They claim that …

The classic domestication scenario for grains and fruits has been portrayed as the lucky
fixation of major-effect “domestication genes.” Characterization of these genes plus recent …

Genetic modification (GM) of crop plants is frequently described by its proponents as a
continuation of the ancient process of domestication. While domestication, crop breeding …

We review human effects on biodiversity using archaeological and ethnographic cases with
contrasting ecologies, population densities, and economies. Relevant trends include …

A renewed adoption of relational perspectives by archaeologists working in eastern North
America has created an opportunity to move beyond categorical approaches, those reliant …

Our experiments with crop progenitors have demonstrated that these species exhibit
dramatic plasticity in key traits that are affected by domestication, including seed and fruit …

Abstract Analysis of a large assemblage of Sus scrofa remains from Hallan Çemi, an Early
Holocene (c. 11,700 BP) site in southeastern Turkey, provides new insights into pre …

Since the 1930s, archaeologists have been accumulating data on the lost crops of eastern
North America. These are a group of annual plants (Chenopodium berlandieri, Hordeum …

Geophysical investigations have become standard in archaeological practice to map sites
and help select location for excavation, but the application of these techniques in real time …