Recent research emphasises the importance of both within-group cooperation and between-
group competition for human sociality, past and present. We hypothesise that the shift from …

Resilience–the ability of a system to withstand and recover from perturbation–has become
an important concept for archaeologists and investigating resilient natural resource use and …

Resource depression–a decline in encounter rates with prey due to the actions of a predator–
has been documented for numerous species in North America. Yet it is not fully understood …

Ideal free distribution (IFD) models generally predict that populations, including human
populations, will distribute themselves across the landscape such that resource access is …

In Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants
play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at …

This dissertation is about why agricultural practices change and why they do so in certain
ways. Given the immeasurable diversity of crops, tools, inputs, labor regimes, and landscape …

Mike Jochim has been foundational to thinking systematically about the archaeological
study of hunters and gatherers. This paper briefly reviews the diversity of approaches to this …

The idea of the Anthropocene is investigated in a multidisciplinary study by combining the
perspectives of geography, biology, archaeology, paleontology and media ecology (ie the …

Predictive models derived from behavioral ecology have proved useful for understanding
past human behavior (Bird and O'Connell 2006; Codding and Bird 2015; Winterhalder and …

Abstract The Southeastern Ozarks region is a karst limestone environment featuring many
sheltered sites, including Saltpeter Cave in Newton County, Arkansas. Early and Middle …