The relationship between residence, gender and mobility is central to the study of early social complexity. And yet, until recently, it was deemed as archaeologically intractable. The recent combination of strontium data and genomics with other methods has opened up ent...

Hunter–gatherers past and present live in complex societies, and the structure of these can be assessed using social networks. We outline how the integration of new evidence from cultural evolution experiments, computer simulations, ethnography, and archaeology open new...

A la baixa edat mitjana els grans temples cristians utilitzaven importants quantitats de cera, que era un producte exposat a les oscil·lacions del mercat mediterrani i que, en general, resultava cara. Per tal d’atenuar la despesa en cera, els administradors de les esglé...

Terraced landscapes are widely applied in many mountainous regions around the world as a result of the necessity to practice subsistence agriculture. Hence, they can be regarded as one of the most diffused anthropogenic modifications of the Earth’s surface. Differ...