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Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics. Articles for the online edition are available as Full Text, Postscript, and PDF files—take your choice. Editions of the journal available online begin with Volume 40, number 5 (in other words, every edition since December 1999. Although this presently makes for a fairly limited digital backlist, all future editions of the journal will be published and archived on the web, so the library will quickly grow in weight and usefulness. Recent articles include “The Social Behavior of Chimpanzees and Bonobos:
Empirical Evidence and Shifting Assumptions,”“Cheating at Musical Chairs: Territoriality and Sedentism in an Evolutionary Context,”“The Distributional Approach: A New Way to Identify Marketplace Exchange in the Archaeological Record,” and “Sex, Sound Symbolism, and Sociolinguistics.” The site also includes listings and contact info for the editors and editorial board, details on how to submit articles for publication, and a handy searchable index items published in the journal.