More than providing simply nutritive value, food in human societies can be endowed with
great social weight. Aspects of any given food system inform, and are informed by, a variety of …

Bioarchaeology and biogeochemistry can elucidate aspects of individual life histories that
are often lost in the archaeological record. Here, we use stable and radiogenic isotope …

Over the past forty years, stable isotope analysis of bone (and tooth) collagen and hydroxyapatite
has become a mainstay of archaeological and paleoanthropological reconstructions of …

Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the most unforgiving landscapes on the planet;
however, a variety of complex risk-mitigation strategies facilitated long-term human occupation …

Some 6,000 years ago, humans first arrived on the island of Puerto Rico. In the millennia
between this initial human colonization and the arrival of Europeans in the 15 th century AD, …

Bone collagen is a well-characterized and generally robust protein that plays a key role in
both radiometric dating and stable isotopic reconstruction of paleodiet. To be useful for such …

CCORDING to its publisher Walter Burre, when T he Knight of the Burning Pestle was first
staged by the Children of Blackfriars in 1607, the audience “vtterly reiected it,”’and seemingly …

The Middle Period of the Atacama oases, North Chile, has been characterized as a time of
peace, uniform abundance, and widespread access to exotic materials. In the present work, …

… They professed to supply a critical text, but the retention of errors introduced through
successive reprints of The Knight of the Burning Pestle shows that careful collations of the early …

We possess rather little detailed information on the lives of the first inhabitants of Puerto Rico—the
so-called “Archaic” or “Pre-Arawak” people—despite more than a century of …