Until recently in Earth history, very large herbivores (mammoths, ground sloths, diprotodons,
and many others) occurred in most of the World's terrestrial ecosystems, but the majority …

Early agriculture can be detected in palaeovegetation records, but quantification of the
relative importance of climate and land use in influencing regional vegetation composition …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

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

In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant
changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical …

The impact of large herbivores on ecosystems before modern human activities is an open
question in ecology and conservation. For Europe, the controversial wood–pasture …

A multi-disciplinary study assessing the evidence for agriculture in Neolithic Ireland is
presented, examining the timing, extent and nature of settlement and farming. Bayesian …

The main paradigm for protection of biodiversity, focusing on maintaining or restoring
conditions where humans leave no or little impact, risks overlooking anthropogenic …

ABSTRACT The New Zealand economy is export-driven and heavily reliant on the
productivity of the pastoral sector. The transformation of native forest and tussock grassland …

Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to
explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this …