Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture

A Pisor, JS Lansing, K Magargal - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There is global consensus that we must immediately prioritize climate change adaptation—
change in response to or anticipation of risks from climate change. Some researchers and …

An integrated statistical-machine learning approach for runoff prediction

AK Singh, P Kumar, R Ali, N Al-Ansari… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, great attention has been attributed to the study of runoff and its fluctuation over
space and time. There is a crucial need for a good soil and water management system to …

Large variation in availability of Maya food plant sources during ancient droughts

SL Fedick, LS Santiago - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Paleoclimatic evidence indicating a series of droughts in the Yucatan Peninsula during the
Terminal Classic period suggests that climate change may have contributed to the disruption …

Small-scale farmer responses to the double exposure of climate change and market integration

KL Kramer, JV Hackman - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthropologists have long studied how small-scale societies manage climate variation.
Here, we investigate how Yucatec Maya subsistence farmers respond to climate stress, and …

Human adaptation to climate change: An introduction to the special issue

AC Pisor, JH Jones - American Journal of Human Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Despite our focus on adaptation and human responses to climate, evolutionary
and biological anthropologists (EBAs) are largely absent from conversations about …

Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies

T Braun, SFM Breitenbach, V Skiba… - … earth & environment, 2023 - nature.com
Classic Maya populations living in peri-urban states were highly dependent on seasonally
distributed rainfall for reliable surplus crop yields. Despite intense study of the potential …

Contributions of evolutionary anthropology to understanding climate‐induced human migration

AR Templon, DR Kirsch… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Humans are able to thrive in a multitude of ecological and social environments, including
varied environments over an individual lifetime. Migration—leaving one place of residence …

Chapter 10. Intensification does not require modification: Tropical Swidden and the Maya

A Ford - Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
What is involved in finding fields? Agricultural intensification and its archaeological
correlates are not always obvious. Archaeologists frequently equate capital‐based …

To understand climate change adaptation, we must characterize climate variability: Here's how

AC Pisor, D Touma, D Singh, JH Jones - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Climate change adaptation involves the management of climate-related risks, and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we must prioritize adaptation …

How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?

JH Jones, AC Pisor, KG Douglass… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data,
evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and …