Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent
areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate …

Identifying and dating first human colonization of new places is challenging, especially when
group sizes were small and material traces of their occupations were ephemeral. Generating …

Abstract Analysis of a sediment core from Lago Puerto Arturo, a closed basin lake in
northern Peten, Guatemala, has provided an∼ 8700 cal year record of climate change and …

The 1100-year sedimentary record of Laguna Biajaca reveals human-driven landscape
changes in the central Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola. This sediment-filled …

A sediment core from a lagoon in southeastern Cuba was the focus of a multi-proxy
paleoenvironmental study to investigate lagoon response to sea-level change and climate …

Caribbean island ecosystems underwent significant landscape transformations in the
centuries after Columbus landed in the archipelago in AD1492, but there is no agreement as …

A synthesis of 93 hydrologic records from across North and Central America, and adjacent
tropical and Arctic islands, reveals centennial to millennial trends in the regional …

High-resolution paleoclimate records from the Mayan Lowlands and the Cariaco Basin have
shown that the collapse of the Mayan socio-political structure at the end of the Classic …

Coastal lagoons are rarely used as paleoclimate archives because of their complex
geomorphic histories, which can be affected by both climate and sea-level change …

Abstract Analysis of starch grains recovered from ancient human dental calculus provides
unique insights into the spectrum of starchy plants that were available and consumed at …