Statistical inference of prehistoric demography from frequency distributions of radiocarbon dates: a review and a guide for the perplexed

ER Crema - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2022 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies

A Palmisano, D Lawrence, MW De Gruchy… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

[图书][B] The dawn of everything: A new history of humanity

D Graeber, D Wengrow - 2021 - books.google.com
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC
HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL …

Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe

RP Evershed, G Davey Smith, M Roffet-Salque… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

Inference from large sets of radiocarbon dates: software and methods

ER Crema, A Bevan - Radiocarbon, 2021 - cambridge.org
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 …

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

I Olalde, S Brace, ME Allentoft, I Armit, K Kristiansen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and
central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled …

The city as innovation machine

R Florida, P Adler, C Mellander - Transitions in regional economic …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The city as innovation machine. Regional Studies. This paper puts cities and urban regions
at the very centre of the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. It combines the …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence and spread of basal lineages of Yersinia pestis during the Neolithic decline

N Rascovan, KG Sjögren, K Kristiansen, R Nielsen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary Between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, many Neolithic societies declined
throughout western Eurasia due to a combination of factors that are still largely debated …

[HTML][HTML] Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago

S Rasmussen, ME Allentoft, K Nielsen, L Orlando… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The bacteria Yersinia pestis is the etiological agent of plague and has caused human
pandemics with millions of deaths in historic times. How and when it originated remains …

Towards a new paradigm? The third science revolution and its possible consequences in archaeology

K Kristiansen - Current Swedish Archaeology, 2014 - publicera.kb.se
There seems to be a general feeling that some fundamental changes are underway in
archaeological thinking and have been for some time now. One need only look at some …