The timing of the human settlement of Madagascar, one of the last large landmasses to be
settled by people, remains a key topic of debate in archaeology. Despite decades of …

The extensive postglacial mammal losses in the West Indies provide an opportunity to
evaluate extinction dynamics, but limited data have hindered our ability to test hypotheses …

The early peopling of the Americas has been one of the most hotly contested topics in
American anthropology and a research issue that draws archaeologists into a …

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 mechanisms of Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions remain fiercely contested, with
human impact or climate change cited as principal drivers. We compared ancient DNA and …

The peopling of Sahul (the combined continent of Australia and New Guinea) represents the
earliest continental migration and settlement event of solely anatomically modern humans …

Loss of megafauna, an aspect of defaunation, can precipitate many ecological changes over
short time scales. We examine whether megafauna loss can also explain features of lasting …

South America lost around 52 genera of mammals during a worldwide event known as the
Late Quaternary Extinction episode. More than 80% of South American mammals weighing> …

Megafaunal extinction followed the prehistoric human settlement of islands across the globe,
but the exact duration and dynamics of the extinction processes are difficult to determine …

The settlement of Patagonia has been the subject of extensive research, although key
questions about the timing of arrival of the first humans and the subsequent patterns of …