pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions

M Leonardi, EY Hallett, R Beyer, M Krapp… - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent development of continuous paleoclimatic reconstructions covering hundreds of
thousands of years paved the way for a large number of studies from disciplines ranging …

Water, population growth and contagious diseases

M Iaccarino - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Water, essential for the biology of living organisms, is also important for agriculture, for the
organization of social life and for culture. In this review we discuss the interrelationship …

The beginning of the Neolithic in Southern Italy and Sicily

E Natali, V Forgia - Quaternary International, 2018 - Elsevier
The process of Neolithization of Southern Italy and Sicily covers about 500 years (6200–
5700 cal BC) and involves two cultural horizons: Archaic Impressed Ware or “Impresse …

Origin of tuberculosis in the Paleolithic predicts unprecedented population growth and female resistance

PJ Cardona, M Català, C Prats - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Current data estimate the origin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MtbC) infection
around 73,000 years before the common era (BCE), and its evolution to “modern” lineages …

The legacy of Luca Cavalli-Sforza on human evolution

M Colucci, M Leonardi, JA Hodgson, C Stringer… - 2025 - nhm.openrepository.com
Archaeology and the branch of population genetics focusing on the human past have
historically lived parallel lives, often having complicated encounters when it came to …

[PDF][PDF] Why there is water scarcity

M Iaccarino - AIMS Geosci, 2021 - aimspress.com
Why there is water scarcity Page 1 AIMS Geosciences, 7(3): 529–541. DOI: 10.3934/geosci.2021030
Received: 02 August 2021 Accepted: 13 September 2021 Published: 16 September 2021 …

Neolithic demic diffusion

G Barbujani - Human Population Genetics and Genomics, 2021 - sfera.unife.it
Abstract In 1978, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza, and Luca Cavalli-Sforza paved the ground
for a new multidisciplinary approach to the study of human prehistory, interpreting genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Archaeology of African Agro-systems: A Macro-Evolutionary Perspective

AFC Holl - International Journal of Archaeology, 2022 - researchgate.net
The neolithization processes–the shift from hunting-gathering to food production–was kicked
off at the end of the Late Glacial Maximum and amplified at different pace in different places …

Genetic demography: What does it mean and how to interpret it, with a case study on the Neolithic transition

M Leonardi, G Barbujani, A Manica - 2021 - repository.cam.ac.uk
The present work describes the basic principles underlying demographic reconstructions
from genetic data, and reviews the studies using such methods with respect to the Neolithic …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic demography: What does it mean and how to interpret it, with a case study on the Neolithic transition (Chapter 5)

M Leonardi, G Barbujani, A Manica - kernsverlag.com
The present work describes the basic principles underlying demographic reconstructions
from genetic data, and reviews the studies using such methods with respect to the Neolithic …