In the 1970s and 1980s, regional analysis was an influential part of archaeological research,
providing a discrete set of geographical tools inspired by a processual epistemological and …

Winner (for best semi-popular book) of the 2008 Irene Levi-Sala Prize for publications on the
archaeology of Israel. The emergence of Israel in Canaan is a central topic in biblical/Syro …

Complex water-stressed basins like the Colorado River in North America have multiple
institutional levels of water management. Each institutional level is characterized by rules …

Growing interest in bioarchaeology and its ability to address complex questions tied to social
and biological identities in the past has led to the development of nuanced methods for …

One of the most prominent but least understood demographic phenomena in the precontact
Southwest is the disappearance of the Hohokam from the valleys of southern Arizona …

Archaeologists have regarded social networks as both the links through which people
transmitted information and goods as well as a form of social storage creating relationships …

Archaeologists have made great strides in understanding prehistoric migration, yet they
have tended to focus on only part of the continuum of human movement. In nonstate …

Analyzing historical trajectories of social interactions at varying scales can lead to
complementary interpretations of relationships among archaeological settlements. We use …

Slavs in the Making takes a fresh look at archaeological evidence from parts of Slavic-
speaking Europe north of the Lower Danube, including the present-day territories of the …

Nahuatl represents a relatively recent extension of the Uto-Aztecan language family into
Mesoamerica. Ethnohistorians have linked Nahuatl's arrival to the historically attested …