Every day, up to 1 g of cholesterol, composed of the unabsorbed dietary cholesterol, the
biliary cholesterol secretion, and cholesterol of cells sloughed from the intestinal epithelium …

We propose defining a field of research called 'archaeoecology'that examines the past~ 60
000 years of interactions between humans and ecosystems to better understand the human …

Abstract The Faroe Islands, a North Atlantic archipelago between Norway and Iceland, were
settled by Viking explorers in the mid-9th century CE. However, several indirect lines of …

Remote sensing technologies are becoming indispensable for archaeological fieldwork,
hel** archaeologists be more efficient and focused in their excavations. Assessing …

The accelerating pace of emerging zoonotic diseases in the twenty-first century has
motivated cross-disciplinary collaboration on One Health approaches, combining …

Drought has long been suspected as playing an important role in the abandonment of pre-
Columbian Native American settlements across the midcontinental United States between …

To reconstruct past environmental changes, a range of indirect or proxy approaches can be
applied to Quaternary archives. Here, we review the complementary and novel insights that …

An in-depth understanding of the relationship between anthropogenic activity and climate
change under extreme climate conditions could provide a scientific basis and historical …

Fecal bacteria in surface water may indicate threats to human health. Our hypothesis is that
village settlements in tropical rural areas are major hotspots of fecal contamination because …

Abstract The North American prairie-forest border is a major biogeographic boundary
ultimately determined by the macroclimate. Climate variability during the Holocene affected …