Archaeologists and palaeoclimatologists have focused on the impact of climate on the
prehistoric civilizations around the world; however, social resilience in the face of the climate …

Recent aDNA analyses demonstrate that the centuries surrounding the arrival of the Beaker
Complex in Britain witnessed a massive turnover in the genetic make-up of the island's …

From mobile hunter-gatherers to a series of state societies, Mediterranean climate regions
(MED) around the world have been critical areas for human and biological evolution for …

Archaeologists make inferences about past human behaviour based on patterned material
residues in various depositional contexts, including existing landsurfaces. These deposits …

Evidence for a major climate event at 5.2 ka has been reported globally and is associated
with considerable societal disruption, but is poorly characterised in northwest Europe. This …

There has been considerable focus on the main, expansionary, and inter-regionally linked
or 'globalising'periods in Old World pre-and proto-history, with a focus on identifying …

The reconstruction of high-resolution chronologies for prehistoric cultures is a prerequisite
for understanding the history of human evolution and its relationship with environmental …

This paper presents the first palaeodemographic results of a newly assembled region-wide
radiocarbon record of the Arctic regions of northern Norway. The dataset contains a …

The melting of perennial ice patches globally is uncovering a fragile record of alpine activity,
especially hunting and the use of mountain passes. When rescued by systematic fieldwork …

Humans have always affected their ecosystems, but finding evidence for significant and
lasting changes to preindustrial landscapes is rare. We report on human-caused changes to …