%O Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. %X This short paper introduces the special section "Civilisation and the Construction of the Human Niche", organised by the ‘Domestication, Niche Construction and the Anthropocene’ research network at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. %L discovery10054436 %K Niche Construction, Archaeological Theory, Evolutionary Theory and Archaeology %J Archaeology International %D 2017 %P 106-109 %V 20 %A M Arroyo-Kalin %A CJ Stevens %A D Wengrow %A DQ Fuller %A M Wollstonecroft %T Civilisation and Human Niche Construction