Fisheries have rarely been'sustainable'. Rather, fishing has induced serial depletions, long
masked by improved technology, geographic expansion and exploitation of previously …

Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

The medieval curriculum comprised seven liberal arts, divided into the lower-level trivium
(grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the upper-level quadrivium (geometry, astronomy …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making.
Human, veterinary, and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could …

A combination of archeological and ethnohistorical evidence indicates that, over an
approximately 8,000-year period, from the beginning of the Holocene until European …

It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk?
What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth, but as a hand-me-down?The …

ABSTRACT In the Eurasian Upper Paleolithic after about 35,000 years ago, abstract or
depictional images provide evidence for cognitive abilities considered integral to modern …