V Brovkin, E Brook, JW Williams, S Bathiany… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The geological record shows that abrupt changes in the Earth system can occur on
timescales short enough to challenge the capacity of human societies to adapt to …

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

D Degroot, KJ Anchukaitis, JE Tierney… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Widespread horse-based mobility arose around 2200 bce in Eurasia

P Librado, G Tressières, L Chauvey, A Fages, N Khan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility. However, the timeline between their
domestication and their widespread integration as a means of transport remains …

A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch

PL Gibbard, AM Bauer, M Edgeworth, WF Ruddiman… - …, 2021 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The Anthropocene has yet to be defined in a way that is functional both to the international
geological community and to the broader fields of environmental and social sciences …

Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

M Walker, MJ Head, J Lowe… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Holocene, which currently spans~ 11 700 years, is the shortest series/epoch within the
geological time scale (GTS), yet it contains a rich archive of evidence in stratigraphical …

Sedimentary ancient DNA shows terrestrial plant richness continuously increased over the Holocene in northern Fennoscandia

DP Rijal, PD Heintzman, Y Lammers, NG Yoccoz… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The effects of climate change on species richness are debated but can be informed by the
past. Here, we generated a sedimentary ancient DNA dataset covering 10 lakes and applied …

Holocene climate variability and Indian Summer Monsoon: an overview

US Banerji, P Arulbalaji, D Padmalal - The Holocene, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The response of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) to forcing factors and climate variables
has not yet fully explored, even though the ISM plays a pivotal role in the socio-economics of …

Holocene palaeoenvironmental records from the high-altitude Wular Lake, Western Himalayas

RA Shah, H Achyuthan, AM Lone, S Kumar… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a comprehensive record of Holocene (11,590–628 cal. yr BP) climate and
hydrographic changes around the Wular Lake located in Kashmir Valley, India. Based on …

[HTML][HTML] From a coastal plain to an anthropized fluvial valley (NW Brittany, France): 7.3 kyr of paleoenvironmental evolution from sedimentological, palynological and …

O David, M Vidal, A Gorczyńska, A Penaud… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Over the Holocene (last 11.7 kyr), the Brittany coastal region has undergone major
changes in response to rising sea level, climatic fluctuations and increasing anthropogenic …

Global patterns in island colonization during the Holocene

TP Leppard, EE Cochrane, D Gaffney… - Journal of World …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us
to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common …