Between fifty and ten thousand years ago, most large mammals became extinct everywhere
except Africa. Slow-breeding animals also were hard hit, regardless of size. This unusual …

More than 40years ago Kent Flannery coined the term Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) in
reference to a broadening of the subsistence base of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in …

In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were
Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes …

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least
understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering …

The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

Projectile weaponry is a human cultural universal, but its origins and antiquity remain poorly
understood. Stone-and bone-tipped projectile weapons have long been treated as emergent …

Behavioral ecology is the study of adaptive behavior in relation to social and environmental
circumstances. Analysts working from this perspective hold that the reproductive strategies …

We synthesize African paleoclimate from 150 to 30 ka (thousand years ago) using 85
diverse datasets at a regional scale, testing for coherence with North Atlantic …

Recent huntergatherers display much uniformity in the division of labor along the lines of
gender and age. The complementary economic roles for men and women typical of …

This paper proposes that complex projectile weaponry was a key strategic innovation driving
Late Pleistocene human dispersal into western Eurasia after 50 Ka. It argues that complex …