The extensive postglacial mammal losses in the West Indies provide an opportunity to
evaluate extinction dynamics, but limited data have hindered our ability to test hypotheses …

Once considered a backwater of New World prehistory, the Caribbean has now emerged
from the archaeological shadows as a critical region for answering a host of questions …

The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They
range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with …

The future of archaeological science relies as much (if not more) on theoretical as on
methodological developments. As with anything in biology, explaining past human behavior …

Human settlement of the Caribbean represents the only example in the Americas of peoples
colonizing islands that were not visible from surrounding mainland areas or other islands …

In the mid-1950s Western Desert of Australia, Aboriginal populations were in decline as
families left for ration depots, cattle stations, and mission settlements. In the context of …

Human populations distribute themselves across landscapes in clearly patterned ways, but
accurate and theoretically informed predictions and explanations of that patterning in the …

Abstract Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us
to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common …

Access to social capital and valued resources modulates household decision-making as
people seek to occupy the best-quality patches of land available. Prior occupancy …

Abstract Changes in social organization accelerated on California's northern Channel
Islands beginning around 1300 cal BP. These changes were associated with shifts in …