Anna Marie Prentiss - Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology

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The Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology evolved from a series of discussions between the editor (Anna Prentiss) and the executive editor for Archaeology and Anthropology at Springer (Teresa Krauss). After meetings in Kyoto, Japan, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, we agreed that this would be a productive effort, and the project was initiated. Teresa has subsequently played a significant role in developing the vision for this book and guiding it through its various stages including designing specific content, peer review, final submissions, and book production.

I am grateful for all the work by our international group of contributors including (in approximate order by chapter) Matt Walsh (National Museum of Denmark), Felix Riede (Aarhus University, Denmark), Sean ONeal (Aarhus University, Denmark), Nathan Goodale (Hamilton College, USA), Anne Kandler (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany), Enrico Crema (University of Cambridge, England), Cheyenne Laue (University of Montana, USA), Alden Wright (University of Montana, USA), Larissa Mendoza Straffon (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Erik Gjesfjeld (University of Cambridge, England), Peter Jordan (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Charles Spencer (American Museum of Natural History, USA), Lisa Nagaoka (University of North Texas, USA), Kristen Gremillion (The Ohio State University, USA), Colin Quinn (Hamilton College, USA), Nicole Herzog (Boise State University, USA), Cedric Puleston (University of California, Davis, USA), Bruce Winterhalder (University of California, Davis, USA), Marc Abramiuk (California State University Channel Islands, USA), and Duilio Garofoli (University of Tbingen, Germany). Many of these scholars are early to mid-career, and I think this bodes extremely well for the future of evolutionary research in archaeology.

I am also very grateful to our two dedicated peer reviewers for the diligence in reading this lengthy collection and for their excellent and useful comments. Their work makes a big difference to the quality of the contents of this book.

I thank the University of Montana for awarding me with a year-long sabbatical that opened the time to write chapters and edit much of the collection. The sabbatical was partially funded by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (grant RZ-230366-1). Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the chapters authored by me in this book do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I also thank the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, England, (and especially Cyprian Broodbank) for providing me with a visiting scholar position during the sabbatical that facilitated writing time and offered a very stimulating academic environment within which to work. I thank (in no particular order) Matt Walsh, Cheyenne Laue, Enrico Crema, Erik Gjesfjeld, Sean ONeal, Charles Spencer, Bruce Winterhalder, Nathan Goodale, Jim Chatters, Tom Foor, and Ian Kuijt for many stimulating conversations in person and over email. Special thanks to Tanja Hoffman and Susanne Hakenbeck for support, friendship, and good conversations during my time in Cambridge.

Finally, I thank my family for their unwavering support and endless patience, while I travelled around the world developing this project (among other things) and, subsequently, spent long hours hidden away getting some writing done!

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