More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

Before the colonial period, California harboured more language variation than all of Europe,
and linguistic and archaeological analyses have led to many hypotheses to explain this …

Abstract The Pacific islands and Island Southeast Asia have experienced multiple waves of
human migrations, providing a case study for exploring the potential of ancient microbiomes …

Beginning~ 3,500 to 3,300 y BP, humans voyaged into Remote Oceania. Radiocarbon-
dated archaeological evidence coupled with cultural, linguistic, and genetic traits indicates …

It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't
it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable …

This Element volume focuses on how archaeologists construct narratives of past people and
environments from the complex and fragmented archaeological record. In kee** with its …

Archaeology of Pacific Oceania, now in its second edition, offers a state-of-the-art and fully
detailed chronological narrative of how Pacific Oceania came to be inhabited over a long …

Ancient DNA is producing a rich record of past genetic diversity in humans and other
species. However, unless the primary data is appropriately archived, its long-term value will …

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural
populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second …