Joy McCorriston and co-author Julie Field published a new introductory textbook with a new narrative of the evolutionary context of our human historical ecology. The narrative introduces diversity in prehistory, establishes technology as the interface of humans and environments, showcases peopling the world, digging in, extinctions in the past, human behavioral ecology, producing food, humans as agents, feeding cities, building monuments-building society, conspicuous consumption, writing, extractivism, and choice in the Anthropocene future. Survey and excavations that led up to the ASOM Project are in the book.