Impact of historical land use and soil management change on soil erosion and agricultural sustainability during the Anthropocene

T Vanwalleghem, JA Gómez, JI Amate, MG De Molina… - Anthropocene, 2017 - Elsevier
Since prehistoric times, farmers have faced the challenge of balancing the demand for
increasing food production from existing soil resources with conservation of these resources …

[HTML][HTML] Isolating the species element in grass pollen allergy: A review

CA Frisk, B Adams-Groom, M Smith - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Grass pollen is a leading cause of allergy in many countries, particularly Europe. Although
many elements of grass pollen production and dispersal are quite well researched, gaps still …

Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice

H Whitehouse - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2018 - cambridge.org
Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization

P Turchin, TE Currie, H Whitehouse… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Do human societies from around the world exhibit similarities in the way that they are
structured, and show commonalities in the ways that they have evolved? These are long …

Global and national declines in life expectancy: An end‐of‐2021 assessment

P Heuveline - Population and development review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Timely, high‐quality mortality data have allowed for assessments of the impact of the novel
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) on life expectancies in upper‐middle‐and high …

Seshat: The global history databank

P Turchin, R Brennan, T Currie, K Feeney… - …, 2015 - escholarship.org
The vast amount of knowledge about past human societies has not been systematically
organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural …

[图书][B] The open sea: the economic life of the ancient Mediterranean world from the Iron Age to the rise of Rome

J Manning - 2018 - degruyter.com
In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

Examining land-use through GIS-Based kernel density estimation: a Re-Evaluation of legacy data from the berbati-limnes survey

A Bonnier, M Finné, E Weiberg - Journal of Field Archaeology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The use of archaeological survey data for evaluation of landscape dynamics has commonly
been concerned with the distribution of settlements and changes in number of recorded sites …

A systematic assessment of “axial age” proposals using global comparative historical evidence

DA Mullins, D Hoyer, C Collins… - American …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Proponents of the Axial Age contend that parallel cultural developments between 800 and
200 BCE in what is today China, Greece, India, Iran, and Israel-Palestine constitute the …

Duration of agriculture and distance from the steppe predict the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia

TE Currie, P Turchin, E Turner… - Humanities and Social …, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding why large, complex human societies have emerged and persisted more
readily in certain regions of the world than others is an issue of long-standing debate. Here …