Evenks and Evens, Tungusic-speaking reindeer herders and hunter-gatherers, are spread over a wide area of northern Asia, whereas their linguistic relatives the Udegey, sedentary fishermen and hunter-gatherers, are settled to the south of the lower Amur River. The prehistory and relationships of these Tungusic peoples are as yet poorly investigated, especially with respect to their interactions ...

The authors wish to thank Professor C. C. Lin, of the Department of Geology, and Professor Wen-hsun Sung, of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, National Taiwan University, for collaboration in the field. A comprehensive report of the 1964-66 work is being prepared and will appear under the title Fengpitou, Tapenkeng, and the Prehistory of Formosa. For preliminary reports besides th...

In the early days of cyberculture, VR technologies seemed to promise an engagement with the non-sensory, perhaps a trip inside – or at least via a brain separated from the problems of the body. The brain was phantasised as a magical place through which we could tour the entire world a world that was entirely under our control. These phantasies of enhanced mind have a prehistory, one that is wel...

The numerical solution of time-dependent partial integro-differential equations is considered. This includes both variants, the initial value problem and the prehistory problem. One problem concerning partial integro-differential equations is the data storage. To deal with this problem an adaptive method of third order in time is developed to save storage data at smooth parts of the solution. B...

Research into human-environment interaction in California prehistory often focuses on either the internal dynamics of adaptive decisions or the external impacts of environmental change. While both processes were surely driving prehistoric variability, integrating these approaches is not altogether straightforward. Here we outline an inclusive approach examining the exploitation of acorn habitat...

A new timescale has recently been established for human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages, making mtDNA at present the most informative genetic marker system for studying European prehistory. Here, we review the new chronology and compare mtDNA with Y-chromosome patterns, in order to summarize what we have learnt from archaeogenetics concerning five episodes over the past 50,000 years which si...