Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation in Western Mecklenburg Investigating the origin and development of large-scale monuments, and the emergence of early complex societies, on the north ...

Although, as previously discussed, South America likely was the stage for at least a few episodes of increased population growth and demic diffusion during the Late Holocene, which reshaped the ...

Humanity Accepts the Idea of Infinity but Struggles to Conceive of a World Without a Beginning It is commonly asserted that an atheist is someone who has rejected belief in the existence of a ...

The Neolithic in southwest Asia (c 11,700-7800 cal BP) is an important period in human history which saw the advent of sedentism, agriculture, and ultimately, the rise of complex societies. It is also ...

Childhood obesity has become a formidable public health challenge in the United States, posing a risk of various downstream health complications for young people. While the drivers of childhood ...

Figure 1: Cancer mortality by major Latin American cities, 2015-19 (deaths per 100,000 population, men and women). Credit: GlobalData. Historical epidemiological analysis has demonstrated an ...

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) unearthed the remains of an 8,000-year-old rectangular dwelling at the site of Svinjarička Čuka in Serbia.

Dan McCaslin / Noozhawk photo A largely sedentary lifestyle can’t be good for most humans, and I’ve written before about the physical dangers of sedentism, especially in our highly urbanized West.

James Scott, in Against the Grain, questioned ‘the social will to sedentism’ – the idea that Neolithic nomads couldn’t wait to settle down, cultivate grain, obey laws and pay taxes – while David ...

He noted that the Natufian settlement system has been claimed as an example of inter-annual, pre-agricultural sedentism, and while this level of settlement permanence has yet to be demonstrated, there ...

In the University of West Georgia’s Biological and Forensic Anthropology Laboratory, lives long forgotten are resurrected by piecing together clues from microscopic crevices of bones and teeth.