Glacial–interglacial climate cycles are known to have triggered migrations and
reassortments of tropical biota. Although long-term precessionally-driven changes in …

Amazonia constitutes one of the most ethnically diverse regions in the world. However, our
understanding of the arrival and historical trajectories of people in Amazonia is still poorly …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

An important debate has been re‐invigorated by new data concerning the size and
environmental impacts of human populations in the Amazon Basin during pre‐history. Here …

Aim The two main hypotheses about the Neotropical palaeovegetation, namely that of
Amazonian refugia by Haffer and of the Pleistocene arc by Prado and Gibbs, are still …

Quantifying the impacts of climate change on prehistoric demography is crucial for
understanding the adaptive pathways taken by human populations. Archaeologists across …

Dynamics in the rate of compositional change (rate-of-change; RoC), preserved in
paleoecological sequences, are thought to reflect changes due to exogenous (climate and …

The magnitude of change in climatic conditions and vegetation response to the last
deglaciation in various parts of tropical Amazonia is poorly understood and controversial …

Aim To investigate the palaeoecological changes associated with the last ice age,
subsequent deglaciation and human occupation of the central Andes. Location Lake …

Fossil assemblages reflect the parental communities that produced them, and are in turn
associated with specific environmental conditions. Thus, climatic and environmental …