Miriam Belmaker has been invited to present her research in the second conference of the Cultural History of PaleoAsia. The four-year project “Cultural History of PaleoAsia: Integrative Research on the Formative Processes of Modern Human Cultures in Asia” was launched... MORE

On Identifying Stone Tool Production Techniques: An Experimental and Statistical Assessment of Pressure versus Soft Hammer Percussion Flake Form Pressure flaking is a stone tool production technique that uses a narrow tool to directly apply force to the edge of... MORE

Traditional models of the transition from hunting-gathering to the origins of agriculture suggest that mobile foragers became sedentary to exploit wild cereal crops, eventually leading to domestication. However, recent research at Kharaneh IV, published in PloS One by Dr. Monica... MORE

In the 1630s the first European trade with the Creek people was chronicled in a variety of documents. But what was the nature of this interaction? To us, this was an interesting question. The inspiration for our document study started... MORE

Melissa Miller, TU doctoral student in anthropology, will travel to Northern Cape Province, South Africa, for a field season at the site of Wonderwerk Cave. Wonderwerk Cave preserves almost 2 million years of habitation, including the earliest evidence of controlled fire... MORE

This summer, a joint team from The University of Tulsa and the University of California, Berkeley, return to the site of Kharaneh IV in eastern Jordan for excavations. This site was occupied approximately 20,000 years ago, during the Epipalaeolithic period,... MORE