Here, we present a new method to scan a large number of lithic artefacts using three-
dimensional scanning technology. Despite the rising use of high-resolution 3D surface …

Archaeological systematics, together with spatial and chronological information, are
commonly used to infer cultural evolutionary dynamics in the past. For the study of the …

The Baltic Sea basins, some of which only submerged in the mid-Holocene, preserve Stone
Age structures that did not survive on land. Yet, the discovery of these features is …

Originally developed for the quantitative analysis of organismal shapes, both two‐
dimensional (2D) and 3D geometric morphometric methods (GMMs) have recently gained …

The identification of material culture variability remains an important goal in archaeology, as
such variability is commonly coupled with interpretations of cultural transmission and …

The analysis of ancient genomes is having a major impact on archaeological interpretations.
Yet, the methodological divide between these disciplines is substantial. Fundamentally …

The Late Glacial, that is the period from the first pronounced warming after the Last Glacial
Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene (c. 16,000–11,700 cal bp), is traditionally viewed …

During the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene and in the early Holocene period,
hunter-gatherer communities across tropical South America deployed a range of …

In the analysis of archaeological relationships and processes, a uniform classification of the
dataset is a fundamental requirement. To achieve this, a standardised taxonomic system, as …

Over geological and cultural evolutionary timescales, volcanic eruptions are relatively
frequent events. In some parts of the world they are common and usually small in scale, and …