Human populations have been concentrated along and exploiting the coastal zones for
millennia. Of regions with the highest human impacts on the oceans, 6 of the top 10 have …

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) reflect peoples' physical and cognitive interactions with
nature and are increasingly recognised for providing non-material benefits to human …

Over 60 years ago, stone tools and remains of megafauna were discovered on the
Southeast Asian islands of Flores, Sulawesi and Luzon, and a Middle Pleistocene …

In the face of environmental uncertainty due to anthropogenic climate change, islands are at
the front lines of global change, threatened by sea level rise, habitat alteration, extinctions …

Twenty-first-century global warming poses a significant threat to the cultural heritage of
coastal regions, but the effects of sea-level rise and changing weather patterns will not be …

Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in
archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal archaeology have transformed …

The emerging picture of prehistoric Arabia suggests that early modern humans were able to
survive periodic hyperarid oscillations by contracting into environmental refugia around the …

Palaeoshorelines and associated palaeo-coastal features are studied to reconstruct past
sea level, climate, and depositional environments. Their identification typically depends on …

A variety of evidence suggests that the Americas may have been colonized, at least in part,
by maritime peoples moving around the North Pacific Rim near the end of the Pleistocene …

Wallacea is the transitional biogeographic zone between the continents of Sunda
(Southeast Asia) and Sahul (Australian-New Guinea). It consists of a series of island chains …