Although aquatic resources are often seen as central to the development of post-Pleistocene
cultural complexity, most models of human evolution have all but ignored the role of aquatic …

This review traces the colonization of Eurasia by hominids some 1,700,000 years ago and
their subsequent evolution there to 10,000 years ago from a carnivorous perspective. Three …

Vale and Gargett (J. Archaeol. Sci. 29 (2002) 57) discuss the finds from sieving experiments
through 6 mm, 3 mm, and 1 mm mesh sizes from Arrawarra-I, a coastal midden site in …

Study of fish bones recovered from coastal archaeological sites requires careful taphonomic
analysis in order to determine whether the fish bone assemblage is naturally or culturally …

Hydrological regimes are significant drivers of fisheries production in many African Lakes
due to their influence on fish habitat and food availability, breeding success, and …

A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers
who produced fiber-tempered ceramics. Few topics in the development of humans have …

Despite the fact that fish are a common component of coastal and other aquatic
archaeological sites, cut marks are rarely reported on archaeological fish remains. To …

Here we present an ethnographic study on the practice of three butchering methods applied
to 645 fish by traditional fishermen in Panama (Central America) and southern Sinai (Red …

This study is designed to determine the extent to which taphonomic processes alter the
taxonomic composition of fish remains in lacustrine sediments. We wish to explore …

Crescents are a distinctive component of several terminal Pleistocene–early Holocene (TP–
EH) toolkits in the Far West, including the concave-based projectile point techno-complex …