World Archaeology is the only journal established specifically to deal with archaeology on a world-wide multiperiod basis and thirty years after it was founded it remains the leader in its field. Each ...

Historical Archaeology, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1989), pp. 2-18 (17 pages) This paper examines the occupation of the Sherburne house at Strawbery Banke by Joseph Sherburne—a wealthy and influential merchant ...

The discovery of the oldest known human burial site, a child’s grave in a Kenyan cave, sheds new light on the emotional life of early Homo sapiens, the head of archaeology for the east African country ...

In the 1960s, British archaeologist Colin Renfrew developed a method for analyzing the chemical composition of stone tools made from volcanic obsidian. The test can identify the lava flows from which ...