In an important early attempt to apply behavioral ecological modeling to lithic resource use and the archaeological record, Ambrose and Lorenz (1990) investigated the problem of the Howiesons Poort sub-stage (HP) in the southern African Middle Stone Age (MSA). In that paper, Ambrose and Lorenz compared general mobility patterns (based on lithic raw material occurrences) to the general environme...

Important recent developments in brain and cognitive sciences offer new avenues for productive cooperation between archaeology and neuroscience. Archaeologists can now learn more about the biological and neural substrates of the human cognitive abilities and use that knowledge to better define and identify their archaeologically visible traces and possible signatures. In addition, important que...

The time of appearance of a persistent and demographically-viable hunter-gatherer population in late Pleistocene southern South America must be determined by evaluating evidence from as large as possible a sample of candidate archaeological sites in the region. We co-ordinated the AMS dating of multiple bone and charcoal samples from previously-excavated strata at the following sites: Arroyo Se...

We have compiled an extensive database of archaeological evidence for rice across Asia, including 400 sites from mainland East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. This dataset is used to compare several models for the geographical origins of rice cultivation and infer the most likely region(s) for its origins and subsequent outward diffusion. The approach is based on regression modelling where...

RECONSTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC exchange systems in Island Melanesia is becoming increasingly possible as archaeological activity continues to expand our knowledge of areas formerly labeled terra incognita. The Solomon Islands represent such an area, although much of the archipelago remains little known or unknown archaeologically. The objective of this paper is to examine recent evidence for pas...

Towards the end of first millennium, a fundamental change in fabric Western European elite society occurred as families began to promote themselves not on basis kin-groups but their personal wealth. Key self-aggrandisement was ownership local power centres, into which aristocrats poured investment. In England, few these magnate cores have been investigated archaeologically, and understanding re...

Bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) from Serra da Capivara National Park (Brazil), perform the widest range of activities using stone tools all non-human tool-using primates. The behaviours behind this tool-use have been closely documented, but little is known about characteristics themselves. Here we redress imbalance and adopt an archaeological perspective to analysis pounding tool...

This paper reviews studies of Tang and Song blue-and-white porcelains, both archaeologically scientifically, based on published data, compares with sancai, which represents the earliest use cobalt pigment in Chinese ceramics. Thirty-nine wares seven have been excavated from city sites, kilns, a tomb, shipwreck, pagodas. These findings identify as export ware related to Maritime Silk Road or sug...

During the summer of 2019, Bacton to Walcott Coastal Management Scheme involved emplacement on foreshore 1.8 million cubic metres sand and gravel dredged from submerged sediments Palaeo-Yare in southern North Sea 11 km off Great Yarmouth. following 2-year period, an active group collectors identified Palaeolithic artefacts eroding these sediments, including Levallois cores flakes, cordiform han...

To analyze the contribution of the Czech population to the Y-chromosome diversity landscape of Europe and to reconstruct past demographic events, we typed 257 males from five locations for 21 UEPs. Moreover, 141 carriers of the three most common haplogroups were typed for 10 microsatellites and coalescent analyses applied. Sixteen Hg's characterized by derived alleles were identified, the most ...