Real-world construction projects typically require three groups of tasks: site preparation
(earthmoving, leveling), substructure (anchoring, foundations), and superstructure (load …

We review and evaluate human adaptations during the last glacial-interglacial climatic
transition in southwest Asia. Stable isotope data imply that climatic change was synchronous …

The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

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 …

The standard model of particle physics encapsulates our best current understanding of
physics at the smallest scales. A fundamental axiom of this theory is the universality of the …

Archaeologists have proposed that quite a number of structures dating to the Pre-Pottery
Neolithic A and B in southwest Asia were nondomestic ritual buildings, sometimes described …

Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government.
We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing …

Comparison of two Turkish Neolithic sites with rich symbolism, Çatalhöyük and Göbekli,
suggests widespread and long-lasting themes in the early settled communities of the region …

Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid
regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left …

Neolithization processes in the Levant differed from those in Europe. A major population
growth was already occurring in the former at the onset of the Late Glacial Maximum …