Mobility models play a crucial role in the reconstruction of prehistoric behavior that led to the development of sedentary communities and food-production in Southwest Asia. This project has been designed to evaluate current approaches to reconstructing hunter-gatherer mobility …
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Evidence from agronomy and bio-geography shows that northern Ethiopia is a center of origin of several economically important African plant domesticates that played a major role in the emergence of Neolithic societies. Although archaeologists have speculated on how and why these…
Archaeologists have long held that changing patterns of settlement within a region reflect the changing social organization of Its human population, but they have had little success developing general theory to explain or otherwise make use of this relationship. Much of this dif…
The pastoral complex is one of the four main food-producing systems of contemporary Ethiopia. Unfortunately archaeological research into the origins of pastoralism in Ethiopia in general and southern Ethiopia in particular has for various reasons, not kept pace with surrounding …
The Levant (Israel and Jordan) has a long history of human occupation. Archaeological sites in the region demonstrate this history as one of continuous change. The focus on understanding this history of change is most pronounced in the overriding interest in the transition from …
The present research involves the application of geoarchaeological theory and methods to the archaeological record of northern Jordan. A geoarchaeological survey conducted in 2000 and 2001 focussed on documenting and sampling ancient river terraces in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. It aim…