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 …

Late Quaternary palaeoclimates and human-environment dynamics of the Maloti-Drakensberg region, southern Africa

BA Stewart, PJ Mitchell - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains are southern Africa's highest and lie at a crucial
interface between the sub-continent's drier, colder, more seasonal interior and its …

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

AS Malaspinas, MC Westaway, C Muller, VC Sousa… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we
generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama …

Earliest directly dated rock art from Patagonia reveals socioecological resilience to mid-Holocene climate

G Romero Villanueva, M Sepúlveda… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The timing for the evolution of the capacity to inscribe the landscape with rock art has global
relevance. While this was an in-built capacity when Homo sapiens first colonized the …

Climate change–induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes

WC McCool, BF Codding, KB Vernon… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the influence of climate change and population pressure on human conflict
remains a critically important topic in the social sciences. Long-term records that evaluate …

Climate and demography drive 7000 years of dietary change in the Central Andes

KM Wilson, WC McCool, SC Brewer… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Explaining the factors that influence past dietary variation is critically important for
understanding changes in subsistence, health, and status in past societies; yet systematic …

Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul

CJA Bradshaw, S Ulm, AN Williams, MI Bird… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
The timing, context and nature of the first people to enter Sahul is still poorly understood
owing to a fragmented archaeological record. However, quantifying the plausible …

Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns

F Saltré, J Chadoeuf, KJ Peters, MC McDowell… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mechanisms leading to megafauna (> 44 kg) extinctions in Late Pleistocene (126,000—
12,000 years ago) Australia are highly contested because standard chronological analyses …

[HTML][HTML] Human-environmental interactions in Mediterranean climate regions from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

T Rick, MÁC Ontiveros, A Jerardino, A Mariotti… - Anthropocene, 2020 - Elsevier
From mobile hunter-gatherers to a series of state societies, Mediterranean climate regions
(MED) around the world have been critical areas for human and biological evolution for …

Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific: a study in complex human ecodynamics

B Fitzhugh, EW Gjesfjeld, WA Brown, MJ Hudson… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Living in remote places can strain the adaptive capacities of human settlers. It can also
protect communities from external social, political and economic forces. In this paper, we …