Prehistory of southern Central America by Geurds, A

“…Central America typically also includes Guatemala, Belize, and the western part of El Salvador, but the archaeology of these territories is tied more strongly to discussions on the Mesoamerican culture area. The prehistory of southern Central America comprises the Terminal Pleistocene and the Holocene period, from initial peopling of the region up to the period of European colonization in the first half of the sixteenth century. …”

Making mounds: monuments in Eurasian prehistory by Gosden, C, Hommel, P, Nimura, C

Changes in subsistence practices and diet in Papua New Guinea by Ulijaszek, S

“…Subsistence practices changed throughout prehistory as new crops were introduced or 'traded in'. …”

Negative modernism: Beckett’s poetics of pejorism and literary enactment by Van Hulle, D

“…To explore the philosophical prehistory of what could be termed Beckett’s negative modernism, it first discusses the ‘epiphanic’ modernism of his more canonical predecessors and then traces the contours of Beckett’s own poetics of ‘pejorism’ (a term he coined in the margins of his copy of Olga Plümacher’s Der Pessimismus and in his ‘Whoroscope’ Notebook) to examine how his negative modernism is enacted in his works.…”

A tale of two processes of Neolithisation: southeast Europe and Britain/Ireland by Schulting, R, Borić, D

“…The volume is presented to celebrate the enormous impact that Alasdair Whittle has had on the study of prehistory, especially the European and British Neolithic, and his rich career in archaeology.…”

The Stone Age Archaeology of West Africa by Scerri, E

“…West Africa evidences a number of refugia and ecological bottlenecks which may have played such a role in human prehistory in the region. By the end of the Stone Age, West African groups became increasingly sedentary, engaging in the construction of durable monuments and intensifying wild food exploitation.…”

Local objects, distant symbols: fission-fusion social systems and the evolution of human cognition by Grove, M, Dunbar, R

“…This links group size during prehistory to social complexity; social complexity as a whole is constrained by cognitive capacity, measured primarily by the relativesize of the neocortex; and fission-fusion is an important signifier of social complexity, linking not only to a number of specific cognitive abilities but also to neocortical ratios in primates. …”