The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of
the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to
the present, showing how our body's most visible trait influences our social interactions in …

The Paisley Caves in Oregon record the oldest directly dated human remains (DNA) in the
Western Hemisphere. More than 100 high-precision radiocarbon dates show that deposits …

Recent technological advancements have made a tremendous impact in the fields of
biological anthropology and archaeology. Although advancements in DNA analysis have …

One of the most enduring and stirring debates in archeology revolves around the role
humans played in the extinction of large terrestrial mammals (megafauna) and other animals …

Why Walls Won't Work is a swee** account of life along the United States-Mexico border
zone, tracing the border's history of cultural interaction since the earliest Mesoamerican …

In the face of environmental uncertainty due to anthropogenic climate change, islands are at
the front lines of global change, threatened by sea level rise, habitat alteration, extinctions …