The Deforestation of England Today's typical English countryside of rolling green fields and few trees did not evolve naturally. England was originally wooded. Forests of oak and ...

Reconstructing the Spread of the Grain Weevil Perhaps the most common, most widespread, and arguably most destructive pest of stored grain in history is the grain weevil Sitophilu...

Dutch Art and the Middle Class     Throughout history,the wealthy have been the most avid art collectors. Indeed, the money necessary to commission leading artists to ...

Lenape Horticulture       Older scholarship on Native Americans assumed that, at the time of their first contact with Europeans, Native Americans in the northeaste...

  Sensory Ecology     Some of the most important sensory information animals have to process comes from other animals. Interactions between predators and prey, pare...

Pastoralism as a Way of Life     Pastoralism is a form of food production that involves the keeping of domesticated herd animals and influences both the social and econo...

Tyrannosaurus rex: Predator or Scavenger? Tyrannosaurus rex was among the largest of the theropods, a group of mostly carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaurs that roamed the Earth dur...