▪ Abstract This review addresses methods and theories for the archaeological study of
ancient state economies, from the earliest states through the Classical period and beyond�…

This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's
most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly�…

This book explores the changing ecology, political significance, and cultural meaning of
water in South India. Focusing on the ancient tank irrigation system of the coastal plains�…

This paper examines agricultural intensification as a strategy for achieving sustainable
livelihoods, comparing evidence from a number of areas that have undergone such a�…

Originally designed to explain causes of increased productivity in agricultural systems, the
concept of intensification has become widely linked to hunter-gatherer archaeology�…

The past decade has seen a revival of environmental determinism in palaeoenvironmental
research, with palaeoclimatic shifts implicated in the collapse of many past civilizations�…

The occurrences of cotton in texts and in the archaeological record (seeds, fibres and
textiles) demonstrate the emergence of cotton production centres in north-eastern Africa and�…

When I moved to Cambodia in 2003 to study contemporary Buddhist funeral rituals, my wife,
Leah, moved with me. She was then in the second trimester of her rst pregnancy, so perhaps�…

Several recent discussions within archaeology refocus attention on the relationship between
western knowledge and “indigenous knowledge”: one arising from the question of local�…

The context of the intensification debate is widened by calling attention to two aspects that
have been insufficiently taken into account in the large post‐Boserup literature. These are�…