Statistical inference of prehistoric demography from frequency distributions of radiocarbon dates: a review and a guide for the perplexed

ER Crema - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2022 - Springer
The last decade saw a rapid increase in the number of studies where time–frequency
changes of radiocarbon dates have been used as a proxy for inferring past population …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding climate resilience in Scandinavia during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

MME Bunbury, KI Austvoll, EK Jørgensen… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mid and late-Holocene climate shifts are considered to have profoundly shaped
demographic developments and adaptive responses of communities globally. Yet their …

Big tech

K Birch, K Bronson - Science as Culture, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Big Tech is in the public and political spotlight. Usually defined as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft,
Google/Alphabet, and Facebook/Meta, Big Tech is becoming the watchword for corporate …

Will It ever be FAIR?: Making archaeological data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable

C Nicholson, S Kansa, N Gupta… - Advances in …, 2023 - cambridge.org
A fundamental task of archaeology is to address challenging scientific questions related to
the complexity of human societies. If we are to systematically understand the processes that …

The expansion of agriculture has shaped the recent evolutionary history of a specialized squash pollinator

NS Pope, A Singh, AK Childers, KM Kapheim… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The expansion of agriculture is responsible for the mass conversion of biologically diverse
natural environments into managed agroecosystems dominated by a handful of genetically …

Positive feedbacks in deep-time transitions of human populations

M Lima, EM Gayo, SA Estay… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abrupt and rapid changes in human societies are among the most exciting population
phenomena. Human populations tend to show rapid expansions from low to high population …

Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations

P Riris, F Silva, E Crema, A Palmisano, E Robinson… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The record of past human adaptations provides crucial lessons for guiding responses to
crises in the future,–. To date, there have been no systematic global comparisons of humans' …

Boreal forest cover was reduced in the mid-Holocene with warming and recurring wildfires

MP Girardin, DM Gaboriau, AA Ali, K Gajewski… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The hemi-boreal zone, marking North America's southern boreal forest boundary, has
evolved post-glaciation, hosting diverse ecosystems including mixed forests with savannas …

Long-term demographic trends and spatio-temporal distribution of past human activity in Central Europe: Comparison of archaeological and palaeoecological proxies

J Kolář, M Macek, P Tkáč, D Novák… - Quaternary science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Estimating past population dynamics has become a major research topic for archaeology,
which uses several proxies for studying past demography. The Czech Republic represents a …

Climate-driven habitat shifts of high-ranked prey species structure Late Upper Paleolithic hunting

PM Yaworsky, ST Hussain, F Riede - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Changing climates in the past affected both human and faunal population distributions,
thereby structuring human diets, demography, and cultural evolution. Yet, separating the …