Although it appeared relatively suddenly, the current obesity epidemic–largely manifest in
industrialized societies but now spreading to the rest of the world–is the result of interaction …

By roughly 8,000 calendar years before the present (calBP), hunter‐gatherers across a
broad swath of north China had begun small‐scale farming of broomcorn millet (Panicum …

Summary Anatolia and the Near East have long been recognized as the epicenter of the
Neolithic expansion through archaeological evidence. Recent archaeogenetic studies on …

In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million
years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that …

Feasting is a powerful and transformative phenomenon. Societies are both integrated and
differentiated through feasting; identities are both enacted and altered; and ideologies are …

The East Mediterranean Levant is a focal point for debate about evolutionary continuity
among Late Pleistocene hominin populations. Changes in the Levantine Middle and Upper …

Few cultural developments have taken on as much archeological significance as when
people began living in villages and producing their own food. The economic, social …

This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of human-plant interactions
and their social consequences from the hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic Era to the 21st …

Evidence for a reduction in stature between Mesolithic foragers and Neolithic farmers has
been interpreted as reflective of declines in health, however, our current understanding of …

Germination of 2000-year-old seeds of Phoenix dactylifera from Judean desert
archaeological sites provides a unique opportunity to study the Judean date palm, described …