Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Enhancing crop diversity for food security in the face of climate uncertainty

A Zsögön, LEP Peres, Y Xiao, J Yan… - The plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

O Mottl, SGA Flantua, KP Bhatta, VA Felde, T Giesecke… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Global vegetation over the past 18,000 years has been transformed first by the climate
changes that accompanied the last deglaciation and again by increasing human pressures; …

Inference from large sets of radiocarbon dates: software and methods

ER Crema, A Bevan - Radiocarbon, 2021 - cambridge.org
The last decade has seen the development of a range of new statistical and computational
techniques for analysing large collections of radiocarbon (14C) dates, often but not …

[图书][B] The first farmers of Europe: An evolutionary perspective

S Shennan - 2018 - books.google.com
Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by
the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from …

Statistical inference of prehistoric demography from frequency distributions of radiocarbon dates: a review and a guide for the perplexed

ER Crema - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2022 - Springer
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 …

p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates

D Bird, L Miranda, M Vander Linden, E Robinson… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model prehistoric human
demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent projects, funded …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies

A Palmisano, D Lawrence, MW De Gruchy… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late
Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to assess to what …

[图书][B] The archaeology of human bones

S Mays - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

Earliest systematic coal exploitation for fuel extended to~ 3600 BP

M Qiu, R Liu, X Li, L Du, Q Ruan, AM Pollard… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Coal has long fueled human civilizations. The history of systematic coal fuel exploitation has
been traced back to the late third millennium before present (post-2500 BP). Although …