Sea-level change and demography during the last glacial termination and early Holocene across the Australian continent

AN Williams, S Ulm, T Sapienza, S Lewis… - Quaternary Science …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Future changes in sea-level are projected to have significant environmental and social
impacts, but we have limited understanding of comparable rates of change in the past. Using …

Paleodemography: From archaeology and skeletal age estimation to life in the past

JL Boldsen, GR Milner… - American Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Much of paleodemography, an interdisciplinary field with strong ties to archaeology, among
other disciplines, is oriented toward clarifying the life experiences of past people and why …

Summed Probability Distribution of 14C Dates Suggests Regional Divergences in the Population Dynamics of the Jomon Period in Eastern Japan

ER Crema, J Habu, K Kobayashi, M Madella - PloS one, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Recent advances in the use of summed probability distribution (SPD) of calibrated 14C
dates have opened new possibilities for studying prehistoric demography. The degree of …

Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America

A Goldberg, AM Mychajliw, EA Hadly - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
As the last habitable continent colonized by humans, the site of multiple domestication
hotspots, and the location of the largest Pleistocene megafaunal extinction, South America is …

Population trends and the transition to agriculture: Global processes as seen from North America

GR Milner, JL Boldsen - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Agriculture—specifically an intensification of the production of readily stored food and its
distribution—has supported an increase in the global human population throughout the …

Agriculture, population growth, and statistical analysis of the radiocarbon record

HJ Zahid, E Robinson, RL Kelly - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
The human population has grown significantly since the onset of the Holocene about 12,000
y ago. Despite decades of research, the factors determining prehistoric population growth …

Comparing archaeological proxies for long-term population patterns: An example from central Italy

A Palmisano, A Bevan, S Shennan - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Raw counts of archaeological sites, estimates of changing settlement size and summed
radiocarbon probability distributions have all become popular ways to investigate long-term …

Spatio-temporal approaches to archaeological radiocarbon dates

ER Crema, A Bevan, S Shennan - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Summed probability distributions of radiocarbon dates are an increasingly popular means
by which to reconstruct prehistoric population dynamics, enabling more thorough cross …

Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion

AE Page, S Viguier, M Dyble, D Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
The Neolithic demographic transition remains a paradox, because it is associated with both
higher rates of population growth and increased morbidity and mortality rates. Here we …

The social consequences of climate change in the central Mesa Verde region

DM Schwindt, RK Bocinsky, SG Ortman… - American …, 2016‏ - cambridge.org
The consequences of climate change vary over space and time. Effective studies of human
responses to climatically induced environmental change must therefore sample the …