Abstract The enhancement of crop yields through manuring has been attested since early farming prehistory in many parts the world. This article reviews history research into potential archaeological evidence for this practice Europe, Mediterranean lands and Near East. focus is on interpretation ceramic data recovered surface field surveys conducted 1950 what sorts activities may be plausibly in...

Debates about human prehistory often center on the role that population expansions play in shaping biological and cultural diversity. Hypotheses on the origin of the Austronesian settlers of the Pacific are divided between a recent "pulse-pause" expansion from Taiwan and an older "slow-boat" diffusion from Wallacea. We used lexical data and Bayesian phylogenetic methods to construct a phylogeny...