Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a …

Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although
understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural …

Previous studies suggested that the copy number of the human salivary amylase gene,
AMY1, correlates with starch-rich diets. However, evolutionary analyses are hampered by …

The recent development of continuous paleoclimatic reconstructions covering hundreds of
thousands of years paved the way for a large number of studies from disciplines ranging …

Evidence for a reduction in stature between Mesolithic foragers and Neolithic farmers has
been interpreted as reflective of declines in health, however, our current understanding of …

The rules and structure of human culture impact health as much as genetics or environment.
To study these relationships, we combine ancient DNA (n= 230), skeletal metrics (n= 391) …

Archaeological evidence suggests that the population dynamics of Mid-Holocene (Late
Mesolithic to Initial Bronze Age, ca. 7000–3000 BCE) Europe are characterized by recurrent …

Crop dispersal has long been recognised as an important topic in agricultural archaeology
and food globalisation. The southern coastal region of China, including Fujian Province, is of …