Sustainable management of social-ecological systems requires an understanding of how
anthropogenic climate-and land use change may disrupt interactions between human …

Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although
our local impact on the evolution of these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively …

We propose a model that may explain long-term population growth and decline events
among human populations: The intensification of production generates a tradeoff between …

Despite years of debate, the factors that control the long-term carrying capacity of human
populations are not well understood. In this paper, we assess the effect of changes in …

Describing and explaining the population growth trajectories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers
is an important research problem. Large radiocarbon data sets provide one empirical …

Social complexity in coastal and terrestrial environments both emerge as forms of
subsistence intensification on previous foraging patterns but take different trajectories …

Explaining the stability of human populations provides knowledge for understanding the
resilience of human societies to environmental change. Here, we use archaeological …

Theoretical developments are needed to interpret the increasing amount of large-scale
spatial data about past settlements. So far, settlement patterns have mostly been considered …

I merge publicly available data on CO2 emissions, with patterns of human movement, to
analyze the anticipated effects of human migration on the abilities of nations to attain 2030 …

Archaeological evidence of mobility is often analyzed using ethnographic-scale models of
individual foraging trips and residential moves as a point of reference. Due to site formation …