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Editorial

Editorial.......5

Research articles

Zhang Chi and Hsiao‑chun Hung

Later hunter-gatherers in southern China, 18 000–3000 BC.......11

Tristram R. Kidder, Haiwang Liu and Minglin Li

Sanyangzhuang: early farming and a Han settlement preserved beneath Yellow River flood deposits.......30

Tom D. Dillehay, Duccio Bonavia, Steven Goodbred, Mario Pino, Victor Vasquez, Teresa Rosales Tham, William Conklin, Jeff Splitstoser, Dolores Piperno, José Iriarte, Alexander Grobman, Gerson Levi‑Lazzaris, Daniel Moreira, Marilaura Lopéz, Tiffiny Tung, Anne Titelbaum, John Verano, James Adovasio, Linda Scott Cummings, Phillipe Bearéz, Elise Dufour, Olivier Tombret, Michael Ramirez, Rachel Beavins, Larisa DeSantis, Isabel Rey, Philip Mink, Greg Maggard and Teresa Franco

Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago.......48

Flavia Morello, Luis Borrero, Mauricio Massone, Charles Stern, Arleen García‑Herbst, Robert McCulloch, Manuel Arroyo‑Kalin, Elisa Calás, Jimena Torres, Alfredo Prieto, Ismael Martinez, Gabriel Bahamonde and Pedro Cárdenas

Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego.......71

Benjamín Ballester, Donald Jackson, Matthiu Carré, Antonio Maldonado, César Méndez and Roxana Seguel

An Early Holocene task camp (~8.5 ka cal BP) on the coast of the semi-arid north of Chile.......88

George Willcox and Danielle Stordeur

Large-scale cereal processing before domestication during the tenth millennium cal BC in northern Syria.......99

Gregory E. Areshian, Boris Gasparyan, Pavel S. Avetisyan, Ron Pinhasi, Keith Wilkinson, Alexia Smith, Roman Hovsepyan and Diana Zardaryan

The chalcolithic of the Near East and south-eastern Europe: discoveries and new perspectives from the cave complex Areni-1, Armenia.......115

Olivier Lemercier

Interpreting the Beaker phenomenon in Mediterranean France: an Iron Age analogy.......131

Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd and Christopher Bronk Ramsey

The oldest maritime sanctuary? Dating the sanctuary at Keros and the Cycladic Early Bronze Age.......144

Kevin C. MacDonald and David W. Morgan

African earthen structures in colonial Louisiana: architecture from the Coincoin plantation (1787–1816).......161

Method

Roderick B. Salisbury

Soilscapes and settlements: remote mapping of activity areas in unexcavated prehistoric farmsteads.......178

Ian Armit, Chris Gaffney and Ashley Hayes

Space and movement in an Iron Age oppidum: integrating geophysical and topographic survey at Entremont, Provence.......191

Debate

Ian Holtby, Chris Scarre, R. Alexander Bentley and Peter Rowley‑Conwy

Disease, CCR5-Δ32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis.......207

Richard Nathan Fletcher

Opening the Mediterranean: Assyria, the Levant and the transformation of Early Iron Age trade.......211

Kevin Lane

Prospects: archaeological research and practice in Peru.......221

J. Francis Thackeray

Deceiver, joker or innocent? Teilhard de Chardin and Piltdown Man.......228

N. James

In the gallery: priorities today.......235

Review articles

Don Brothwell

Human evolution: from broad-brush to tooth-brush.......241

Siyakha Mguni

Probing deep into rock art.......245

Paul Pettitt

New light on a dark river: the early prehistory of Old Father Thames.......248

Dirk Brandherm

Knocking vessels into shape in Bronze Age Europe.......251

Jennifer Price

Urban and maritime glass assemblages in the western and eastern Mediterranean.......254

Matthew J. Ponting

Artefact studies in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: a blast from the past?.......258

Book Reviews

Oscar Moro Abadia

Book reviews.......261

Dans l'épaisseur du temps: archéologues et géologues inventent la préhistoire

Alison Sheridan

Book reviews.......262

Gathering time: dating the Early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland

David N. Edwards

Book reviews.......264

The Urban Mind: cultural and environmental dynamics

Cameron Petrie

Book reviews.......266

Early mining and metallurgy on the western Central Iranian Plateau: the first five years of work

Françoise Rougemont

Book reviews.......267

From Minos to Midas: ancient cloth production in the Aegean and in Anatolia

Douglass W. Bailey

Book reviews.......269

Interpreting ancient figurines: context, comparison, and prehistoric art

E. Wyllys Andrews

Book reviews.......271

The first Maya civilization: ritual and power before the Classic period

Stephanie Wynne‑Jones

Book reviews.......272

Pastoralists, warriors and colonists: the archaeology of southern Madagascar

Benjamin N. Vis

Book reviews.......274

The death of archaeological theory

New Book Chronicle

Madeleine Hummler

New Book Chronicle.......276