Jake Ciborowski

Traces of territories? Silcrete procurement strategies and behavioural evidence suggest the presence of territories in the Middle Kalahari, Botswana, during the later Middle Stone Age

<p class="MsoNormal">Territories, defined here as areas of prehistoric resource acquisition, are difficult to identify in the remote past, particularly for the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) where assemblages are dominated by lithics. This study aims to (a) introduce a new protoc...

Arithmetic methods for exploring archaeological source provenance using geochemistry – a short reply

In this reply, we respond to the comment by Pearce and colleagues regarding our recently proposed arithmetic method for assessing geochemical similarity between lithic artefacts and potential source outcrops. We thank the authors for their critique, which highlights several impor...