Table of Contents

Patterns of evolution - distinguishing the wood from the trees; phanerozoic black deaths; patterns and process in early hominid evolution; the problem of diversity in later hominid evolution; hunting and gathering to farming - cyclic or linear process? structure, contingency and timelessness in the archaeology of historic societies; the redirection of human ecology from the deterministic to the contingent via the chaotic.

About the Author

John Bintliff is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.