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 …

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human
colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated …

Highlights•The Life Framework frames how people live in, from, with, and as nature.•We
explore a mirrored framing, where nature lives from, with, in, and as people.•'Living …

The texture of life also changed beyond recognition. From the quiet life of villages, most of
humanity now lived in the tumult of cities. From the relative isolation of villages, humanity …

The peopling of the Americas marks a major expansion of humans across the planet.
However, questions regarding the timing and mechanisms of this dispersal remain, and the …

Abstract In the 1970s, Paul Martin proposed that big game hunters armed with fluted
projectile points colonized the Americas and drove the extinction of megafauna. Around fifty …

Fire activity varies substantially at global scales because of the influence of climate, but at
broad spatiotemporal scales, the possible effects of herbivory on fire activity are unknown …

The cause, or causes, of the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions have been difficult to
establish, in part because poor spatiotemporal resolution in the fossil record hinders …

The disappearance of many North American megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene is a
contentious topic. While the proposed causes for megafaunal extinction are varied, most …

Radiocarbon-date assemblages are commonly used as proxies for past human and
environmental phenomena. Prominent examples of target phenomena include past …