The impacts of early ecological globalisation may have had profound economic and
environmental consequences for human settlements and animal populations. Here, we …

With the advent of ancient DNA, as well as other methods such as isotope analysis,
destructive sampling of archaeofaunal remains has increased much faster than the effort to …

The Norse that settled Greenland between ca. AD 985 and 1450 were sedentary
agropastoralists that combined farming with hunting and organized after a North Atlantic …

Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing
collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still …

There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the impacts of human arrival in new
“pristine” environments, including terrestrial habitat alterations and species extinctions …

Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand
for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of …

Perspectives from the recent and ancient past are largely underutilized in modern
sustainability or food systems studies. However, information about regional crop histories …

Walrus ivory was a prized commodity in medieval Europe and was supplied by Norse
intermediaries who expanded across the North Atlantic, establishing settlements in Iceland …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) approaches have been successfully used to infer the long-term
impacts of climate change, domestication, and human exploitation in a range of terrestrial …

Rapid global warming is severely impacting Arctic ecosystems and is predicted to transform
the abundance, distribution and genetic diversity of Arctic species, though these linkages …