Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Why scale matters -- How do we scale hunter‐gatherers’ social networks? -- Comment by Charlotte Damm -- Comment by Bram Tucker -- What good is archaeology? -- Comment by Graeme Warren -- Comment by Brian Codding -- Upscaling forager mobility and broadening forager relations -- Comment by Robert L. Kelly -- Scales of interaction -- Comment by Elspeth Ready -- Comment by Andreas Maier -- A large‐scale view on ’small‐scale societies’ -- Comment by Robert L. Kelly -- Comment by Graeme Warren -- Socioecological factors influence hunter‑gatherers -- Comment by Andreas Maier -- Scale and Inuit social relations -- Comment by Brian Codding -- Mikea, Malagasy, or hunter‐gatherers? -- Comment by Thomas Widlok -- Scaling an island of hunter‐gatherers -- Comment by Charlotte Damm -- Comment by Bram Tucker -- Authors’ biographies.