This article reviews current archaeological research on the interactions between food and
intrasocietal diversity. Today's archaeology of food and diversity is theoretically diverse but …

Climate change is often cited as a major factor in social change. The so-called 8.2 ka event
was one of the most pronounced and abrupt Holocene cold and arid events. The 9.2 ka …

Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by
the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from …

The conventional theory about the origin of the state is that the adoption of farming
increased land productivity, which led to the production of food surplus. This surplus was a …

The scale and nature of early cultivation are topics that have received relatively limited
attention in research on the origins of agriculture. In Southwest Asia, one the earliest centers …

The advent of farming around 12 millennia ago was a cultural as well as technological
revolution, requiring a new system of property rights. Among mobile hunter–gatherers during …

Familiar explanations of why hunter-gatherers first took up farming—superior labor
productivity, population pressure, or adverse climate—receive little support from recent …

Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This
grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of 'domestication'as …

This paper summarises and interprets data from the Neolithic site ot Çatalhöyük East
collected between 2000 and 2008, while at the same time integrating data from earlier and …

Political economy approaches have been criticized for their focus on top-down processes
with insufficient attention to non-elite agency. Here, we expand archaeological applications …