From “cycad hell” to sacred landscapes: Tracing the cultural significance of cycads in the Ryukyu Islands and Japan

JD Englehardt, MD Carrasco - Journal of Ethnobiology, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores the place of Cycas revoluta in Japanese culture, with a specific focus on
the Ryukyu archipelago. Although never domesticated, worldwide evidence points to the …

Culture process and the interpretation of radiocarbon data

J Freeman, DA Byers, E Robinson, RL Kelly - Radiocarbon, 2018‏ - cambridge.org
Over the last decade, archaeologists have turned to large radiocarbon (14C) data sets to
infer prehistoric population size and change. An outstanding question concerns just how …

[HTML][HTML] Develo** Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée

F Silva, F Coward, K Davies, S Elliott, E Jenkins… - Sustainability, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although
our local impact on the evolution of these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively …

Assessing elements of an extended evolutionary synthesis for plant domestication and agricultural origin research

DR Piperno - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017‏ - pnas.org
The development of agricultural societies, one of the most transformative events in human
and ecological history, was made possible by plant and animal domestication. Plant …

Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina

EA Peralta, JM López, J Freeman, C Abbona… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This paper explores the relationships between population change and human diet after the
adoption of domesticated resources in northwest Mendoza, a subregion of central western …

Synchronization of energy consumption by human societies throughout the Holocene

J Freeman, JA Baggio, E Robinson, DA Byers… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
We conduct a global comparison of the consumption of energy by human populations
throughout the Holocene and statistically quantify coincident changes in the consumption of …

Variations in groundwater levels and quality due to agricultural over-exploitation in an arid environment: the phreatic aquifer of the Souf oasis (Algerian Sahara)

B Khezzani, S Bouchemal - Environmental earth sciences, 2018‏ - Springer
Groundwater is a major source of supply for domestic and agricultural purposes, especially
in arid and semi-arid regions. In this study, we followed the variations in water levels in the …

Repeated long-term population growth overshoots and recessions among hunter-gatherers

J Freeman, RP Mauldin, M Whisenhunt… - The …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a model that may explain long-term population growth and decline events
among human populations: The intensification of production generates a tradeoff between …

A first empirical analysis of population stability in North America using radiocarbon records

D Bird, J Freeman, E Robinson, G Maughan… - The …, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Questions regarding population stability among animals and plants are fundamental to
population ecology, yet this has not been a topic studied by archeologists focusing on …

[HTML][HTML] Between foragers and farmers: Climate change and human strategies in Northwestern Patagonia

AF Gil, R Villalba, FR Franchetti, C Otaola, CC Abbona… - Quaternary, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
In this paper we explore how changes in human strategies are differentially modulated by
climate in a border area between hunter-gatherers and farmers. We analyze multiple …