Since the pioneering days of Paleolithic archaeology in western Europe, the making of stone
tools has received special attention. Numerous studies were aimed at creating systematic …

The study of the human-made world, whether it is called artifacts, material culture, or
technology, has burgeoned across the academy. Archaeologists have for cen-ries led the …

An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland studies the
tactics of resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the borderland …

ABSTRACT In 2016 Olivier Gosselain published a paper in Archaeological Dialogues
suggesting that ethnoarchaeology should “go to hell”. His provocation misrepresents the …

This paper is a charge against ethnoarchaeology. Deliberately provocative, it aims at
highlighting the flaws and ideological pitfalls of a sub-discipline whose actual contribution to …

Observations of continuities and discontinuities in the archaeological record depend in
important ways on the spatial and temporal scale at which we make the observations, which …

Cultural evolutionary processes can often lead to a statistical association between neutral
and adaptive traits during episodes of population dispersal and the introduction of a …

The volume of literature on taphonomic modifications to faunal remains created by a
particular animal species in an actualistic neotaphonomic (ANT) context has grown rapidly …

Cultural inheritance is a central issue in archaeology. If variation were not inherited, cultures
could not evolve. Some archaeologists have dismissed cultural evolutionary theory in …

This paper addresses the question of the diffusion of morpho-functional traits across social
boundaries. A present-day situation is examined. It describes the widespread adoption of a …