The environmental crisis is rendering increasingly large areas of the planet inhospitable. As
it reaches a tipping point, global warming is initiating cascades of ecological transformation …

Environmental uncertainty, climate change, and ecological crisis loom large in the present
and permeate scenarios of potential futures. To understand these predicaments and prepare …

The identification of material culture variability remains an important goal in archaeology, as
such variability is commonly coupled with interpretations of cultural transmission and …

We argue that the deep time perspectives offered by historical disciplines, such as
archaeology and history, provide important human-scale data about climate-adaptation over …

Despite the alleged mastery of humans over nature, contemporary societies are acutely
vulnerable to natural hazards. In interaction with vulnerable communities, these transform …

Comparative macro-archaeological investigations of the human deep past rely on the
availability of unified, quality-checked datasets integrating different layers of observation …

Terms such as resilience, vulnerability and adaptation are heterogeneously defined in the
contemporary climate-change adaptation literature and, hence, remain difficult to …

It is now widely accepted that vulnerability to natural hazards is dependent on cultural and
historical factors. Similarly, geoheritage cannot be readily disentangled from cultural values …

Over geological and cultural evolutionary timescales, volcanic eruptions are relatively
frequent events. In some parts of the world they are common and usually small in scale, and …

Prehistoric demography has recently risen to prominence as a potentially explanatory
variable for episodes of cultural change as documented in the archaeological and …