The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary introduction to the subject
of hominin cognitive evolution that is appropriate for general audiences and students in …

Is sharing food such an everyday, unremarkable occurrence? In fact, the human tendency to
sit together peacefully over food is actually rather an extraordinary phenomenon, and one …

Since the pioneering days of Paleolithic archaeology in western Europe, the making of stone
tools has received special attention. Numerous studies were aimed at creating systematic …

Identification of cultural groups is rare in the early Palaeolithic due to site formation
processes including taphonomy and the effect of raw material and site function. This paper …

The Acheulean industrial complex combines technological variability with continuity on a
scale unparalleled by more recent industries. Acheulean variability includes a widely …

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …

It is often the case in interdisciplinary accounts of human evolution that archaeological data
are either ignored or treated superficially. This article sets out to redress this position by …

In this study, we analyse the three-dimensional micromorphology of cut marks on fossil
mammal remains from a∼ 0.5 million year old Acheulean butchery site at Boxgrove (West …

The archaeology of Britain during the early Middle Pleistocene (MIS 19–12) is represented
by a number of key sites across eastern and southern England. These sites include …

The recognition of the dynamic role of site formation processes led archaeologists to
recognize a behavioral dichotomy between 'living floors' and palimpsests', Yet the …