This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late
Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to assess to what …

Culture is the central concept of anthropology. Its centrality comes from the fact that all
branches of the discipline use it, that it is in a way a shorthand for what makes humans …

This handbook is a translation of the French manual “Des céramiques et des hommes.
Décoder les assemblages archéologiques.”(2016, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest …

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 …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk
of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a …

Archaeologists are adept at analyzing variation in artifacts. The discipline has well
established and tested methods to track change through time and to evaluate the function of …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

British history contains several periods of major cultural change. It remains controversial as
to how much these periods coincided with substantial immigration from continental Europe …

The concept of an archaeological culture rarely features in any surveys of the literature of
modern archaeology, especially in the Anglo-American world. When it does …