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Ominously subtitled `Power, sex and tradition', this collection of seventeen essays by archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out methods for reconstructing the social systems and cultural traditions of our early ancestors. Contributors include: R Foley & P Lee (The evolution of human social behaviour) ; A Maryanski (African ape social networks) ; J Gowlett (Archaeological frameworks of early hominid social systems) ; S Mithen (Interpreting early Palaeolithic technology) ; C Gamble (Hominid networks and the evolution of the social landscape) ; K Hawkes (Behavioural ecology of the sexual division of labour) ; C Knight (Darwinism and collective representations) ; P Graves-Brown (Sex, gender and material culture in human evolution) ; R Dunbar (On the evolution of language and kinship) ; B Cullen (Social interaction and viral phenomena) .