Drawing on both the results of recent archaeological research and anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and varia

This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.

Outgrowth of a symposium at the 2006 Society for American Archaeology meetings in San Juan, and of a seminar at the Amerind Foundation. Cf. pref.

Farmers made a sudden and dramatic appearance in Greece around 7000 BC, bringing with them new ceramics and crafts, and establishing settled villages. They were

The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the demise of the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic way of life. The period is marked by significant so