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Subtitled `The dynamics of prehistoric adaptations within the arid zone of Australia' this book reports on the author's research within the semitropical desertlands at the interphase of the Little and Great Sandy Deserts of north-western Australia.

Serious interest in the evolution and dynamics of intermediate societies in their own right has grown by leaps and bounds during the past decade.

This study aims to compile a unified set of lithic analyses for the prehistory of the area, to compare the components with one another with respect to parameters on which stone tools are relevant and to provide new interpretations of North American prehistoric hunter-gatherer mobility organisation and sedentism.

The Folsom lithic technology is found among the hunter-gatherers of the Pleistocene grasslands of west-central North America. The eleven papers in this volume focus on identifying patterning within the lithic assemblages, detecting structure and variation and providing insights into the organisation of the technology.

The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines such as cognitive ethnology and evolutionary psychology.

These eighteen papers on the archaeology of tribal societies are derived from a Symposium held at the Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1999.

This book analyses the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (c. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought-resistant millet crops is reconstructed using ethnographic studies of crop processing, palaeoethnobotany, and carbon isotope analysis.

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic, 4000-2000 years ago, in the Western Great Lakes are examined to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials, access to and benefits from exchange networks, and social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction ...