The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation

P Roberts, C Hunt, M Arroyo-Kalin, D Evans, N Boivin - Nature plants, 2017 - nature.com
Significant human impacts on tropical forests have been considered the preserve of recent
societies, linked to large-scale deforestation, extensive and intensive agriculture, resource …

Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia

P Veth, I Ward, T Manne, S Ulm, K Ditchfield… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Archaeological deposits from Boodie Cave on Barrow Island, northwest Australia,
reveal some of the oldest evidence for Aboriginal occupation of Australia, as well as …

[HTML][HTML] Least-cost pathway models indicate northern human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul

S Kealy, J Louys, S O'Connor - Journal of human evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
Archaeological records from Australia provide the earliest, indirect evidence for maritime
crossings by early modern humans, as the islands to the north-west of the continent …

[BOOK][B] Tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity

P Roberts - 2019 - books.google.com
In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with'nature'and'wilderness';
battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the …

Palaeogeography and voyage modeling indicates early human colonization of Australia was likely from Timor-Roti

MI Bird, RJ Beaman, SA Condie, A Cooper… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Anatomically Modern Humans (AMHs) dispersed rapidly through island southeast
Asia (Sunda and Wallacea) and into Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands) …

Fruits of the forest: human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼ 36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka

P Roberts, N Perera, O Wedage, S Deraniyagala… - Journal of human …, 2017 - Elsevier
Sri Lanka has yielded some of the earliest dated fossil evidence for Homo sapiens (∼ 38-
35,000 cal. years BP [calibrated years before present]) in South Asia, within a region that is …

Orangutans venture out of the rainforest and into the Anthropocene

SN Spehar, D Sheil, T Harrison, J Louys… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Conservation benefits from understanding how adaptability and threat interact to determine
a taxon's vulnerability. Recognizing how interactions with humans have shaped taxa such …

Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea

A Brumm, MC Langley, MW Moore… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Wallacea, the zone of oceanic islands separating the continental regions of Southeast Asia
and Australia, has yielded sparse evidence for the symbolic culture of early modern humans …

[BOOK][B] From Arabia to the Pacific: How our species colonised Asia

R Dennell - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment
evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and …

The success of failed Homo sapiens dispersals out of Africa and into Asia

RJ Rabett - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018 - nature.com
The evidence for an early dispersal of Homo sapiens from Africa into the Levant during
Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS-5) 126–74 ka (thousand years ago) was characterized for …