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DOCUMENT Full-Text Amy Clark.

This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Homes are spaces where we rest, prepare food, eat, care for children, and enjoy the company of our loved ones. The physical space varies culturally and might be indoors, outdoors, or both. It might be permanent year-round, or it might be reconstituted repeatedly as one moves from place to place. Yet no matter the context, the home is the setting for some of the most important aspects of our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark F. Baumler.

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Stone tools are the most durable and common type of archaeological remain and one of the most important sources of information about behaviors of early hominins. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition develops methods for examining questions of cognition, demonstrating the progression of mental capabilities from early hominins to modern humans through the archaeological record. Dating as far back as 2.5-2.7 million years ago, stone tools were used in cutting up animals, woodworking,...

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Proceedings of International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology, Gainesville, Florida, December 12-14, 1986. This conference was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Florida. Wet Site Archaeology identifies the characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites, from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida and from the Late Pleistoscene to the twentieth century. The rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated...