East African Plio-Pleistocene lithic assemblages from the 2.5–1.3 Ma period are highly variable in terms of their character and context. Traditionally, this variability has been described and interpreted according to typologically based conceptual frameworks which serve to defin…
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This research investigates relations between economic structure and technology at a fourth millennium B.C. Uruk period town, with the goal of understanding how the productive enterprises of a particular town shaped the technological strategies of its residents. The Uruk period w…
Research on the earliest habitation of Cyprus has largely been limited to the finds from excavation at a few sites, or gazetteer-style lists compiled from earlier surveys and fortuitous finds. Generally, though, there was little interest in finding and researching small lithic s…
Until present, the Palaeolithic period in southern Arabia has been more or less terra incognita. Within the last decade, evolutionary scientists have begun to recognize the key role this region must have played in the origin of modern humans. Recent discoveries in the field of g…