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 …

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 …

The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and cultural composition of sub-
Saharan Africa. However, the exact dates and routes taken by the ancestors of the speakers …

The world's largest tropical peatland complex is found in the central Congo Basin. However,
there is a lack of in situ measurements to understand the peatland's distribution and the …

Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

The expansion of people speaking Bantu languages is the most dramatic demographic
event in Late Holocene Africa and fundamentally reshaped the linguistic, cultural and …

As the continent of origin for our species, Africa harbours the highest levels of diversity
anywhere on Earth. However, many regions of Africa remain under-sampled genetically …

The evolutionary history of African hunter-gatherers holds key insights into modern human
diversity. Here, we combine ethnographic and genetic data on Central African hunter …

The aim of this study is to provide the drivers of long-term fire dynamics in various regions of
Sub-Saharan Africa using a synthesis of updated sedimentary charcoal records, from 25,000 …

This paper investigates the sociolinguistic factors that impact the typology and evolution of
grammatical gender systems in northwestern Bantu, the most diverse area of the Bantu …