Volume 72 Number 4 October 2007
Articles
Inference to the Best Explanation: A Common and Effective Form of Archaeological Reasoning
Lars Fogelin
Migration and Social Structure among the Hopewell: Evidence from Ancient DNA
Deborah A. Bolnick and David Glenn Smith
Reports
Lapita Migrants in The Pacific's Oldest Cemetery: Isotopic Analysis at Teouma, Vanuatu
R. Alexander Bentley, Hallie R. Buckley, Matthew Spriggs, Stuart Bedford, Chris J. Ottley, Geoff M. Nowell, Colin G. Macpherson, and D. Graham Pearson
Opportunistic Whale Hunting on the Southern Northwest Coast: Ancient DNA, Artifact, and Ethnographic Evidence
Robert J. Losey and Dongya Y. Yang
Life Histories of Pots and Potters: Situating the Individual in Archaeology
Patricia L. Crown
Toolkit Composition and Assemblage Variability: The Implications of Nogahabara I, Northern Alaska
Daniel Odess and Jeffrey T. Rasic
Radiocarbon Dating and Dietary Stable Isotope Analysis of Kwaday Dän Ts’inchí
Michael P. Richards, Sheila Greer, Lorna T. Corr, Owen Beattie, Alexander Mackie, Richard P. Evershed, Al von Finster, and John Southon
Human Impacts on Nearshore Shellfish Taxa: A 7,000 Year Record from Santa Rosa Island, California
Todd J. Braje, Douglas J. Kennett, Jon M. Erlandson, and Brendan J. Culleton
Magnetic Evidence of Ridge Constructon and Use at Poverty Point
Michael L. Hargrave, Tad Britt, and Matthew D. Reynolds
Trampling Experiments in the Search for the Earliest Americans
Neal H. Lopinot and Jack H. Ray
Comments
Do Regions Make Theory? Comments on Mitchell’s Discussion of the Legacy of the Missouri Basin Project
Peter Bleed
The Effect of the Direct Historical Approach on the Development of Theory in Plains Archaeology: A Comment on Mitchell’s Analysis of the MBP Legacy
Donna C. Roper
Communities Make Theory: A Response to Bleed and Roper
Mark D. Mitchell
Reviews
Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill, by David J. Meltzer
Douglas H. MacDonald
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin, by Noel D. Justice; and Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Southwestern United States, by Noel D. Justice
Robert M. Yohe II
Geochemical Evidence for Long-Distance Exchange, edited by Michael D. Glascock
Jeffrey Ferguson
Archaeological Semiotics, by Robert Preucel
Zoe Crossland