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Wind of change: zooarchaeological approach to the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in Cova Gran of Santa Linya (Lleida, south-eastern Pre-Pyrenees)
Zooarchaeological analyses from late Middle Palaeolithic (LMP) and early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) contexts allow to examine changes in subsistence...
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Geoarchaeological Investigation of Site Formation and Depositional Environments at the Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel
‘Ein Qashish is a Middle Palaeolithic open-air site in the southern Levant, encompassing an excavated area of several hundred square meters and a...
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Shell Midden Archaeology: Current Trends and Future Directions
Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal...
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Agricultural Intensification and the Evidence from Offsite Survey Archaeology
The enhancement of crop yields through manuring has been attested since early farming prehistory in many parts of the world. This article reviews the...
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Late Middle Paleolithic Technological Organization and Behavior at the Open-Air Site of Barozh 12 (Armenia)
Barozh 12 is a late Middle Paleolithic open-air locality in western Armenia dating from ~ 60,000 to 31,000 years ago. Stratified deposits with high...
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Archaeology Through Ethnography: An Academic Treatment with the Study of Human Past
This chapter introduces to the growing scope of the discipline of archaeology in terms of the emergence of ethnoarchaeology as one of the growing...
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A History of Graphing Zooarchaeological Data (Taxonomic Heterogeneity, Demography and Mortality, Seasonality, Bone Survivorship, Butchering, etc.): Toward the Design of Effective and Efficient Zooarchaeology Graphs
Evidence gleaned from 1796 pieces of zooarchaeological literature published between 1900 and 2019, from 22 zooarchaeology textbooks published between...
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Take Shelter! Short-Term Occupations of the Late Paleolithic and the Mesolithic in the French Far West
Despite the important development of radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis these past years or our ability to interpret the archaeological...
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Experimentally Derived Sedimentary, Molecular, and Isotopic Characteristics of Bone-Fueled Hearths
Molecular and isotopic analysis of sediments from archaeological combustion features is a relatively new area of study. Applications can inform us...
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Optimizing Ideas and Institutional Innovations for Urban–Rural Transformation in China
Urban–rural integration is the fundamental goal of urban–rural transformation. Revolutionizing the dualistic urban–rural system, optimizing the...
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The Chronostratigraphy of the Aurignacian in the Northern Carpathian Basin Based on New Chronometric/Archeological Data from Seňa I (Eastern Slovakia)
The northern Carpathian Basin has important geological, paleoenvironmental, and archeological records that are key to our understanding of the first...
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A Critical Review of the Stratigraphic Context of the MSA I and II at Klasies River Main Site, South Africa
Klasies River Main site, on South Africa’s southern Cape coast, has contributed significantly to understanding Late Pleistocene human evolution....
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Intriguing Occupations at Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Spain): the Acheulean Subunits TD10.3 and TD10.4
This paper presents the zooarchaeological, technological, use-wear, and spatial analyses of the earliest sedimentary subunits of TD10 (TD10.3 and...
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Persistent Place-Making in Prehistory: the Creation, Maintenance, and Transformation of an Epipalaeolithic Landscape
Most archaeological projects today integrate, at least to some degree, how past people engaged with their surroundings, including both how they...
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A Cross-cultural Survey of On-site Fire Use by Recent Hunter-gatherers: Implications for Research on Palaeolithic Pyrotechnology
The ability to control fire clearly had a significant impact on human evolution, but when and how hominins developed this ability remains poorly...
