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 …

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 …

Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model prehistoric human
demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent projects, funded …

Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here,
we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial …

The influence of climate change on civil conflict and societal instability in the premodern
world is a subject of much debate, in part because of the limited temporal or disciplinary …

What role did fluctuations play in biomass availability for secondary consumers in the
disappearance of Neanderthals and the survival of modern humans? To answer this, we …

The present-day distribution of Bantu languages is commonly thought to reflect the early
stages of the Bantu Expansion, the greatest migration event in African prehistory. Using …

The response of population and agriculture to abrupt climate events remains a matter of
heated debates, especially the societal collapses related to the 4.2 ka event. Long-term …

Abstract The La Janda wetland record allows to expand the knowledge of the evolution of a
restricted estuary since the Last Glacial Maximum. Multiproxy analysis of the sediments …

Examining how past human populations responded to environmental and climatic changes
is a central focus of the historical sciences. The use of summed probability distributions …