Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

Global vegetation over the past 18,000 years has been transformed first by the climate
changes that accompanied the last deglaciation and again by increasing human pressures; …

The last decade has seen the development of a range of new statistical and computational
techniques for analysing large collections of radiocarbon (14C) dates, often but not …

Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by
the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from …

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

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

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 …

Prehistoric human activities were likely influenced by cyclic monsoon climate changes in
East Asia. Here we report a decadal-resolution Holocene pollen record from an annually …