Climate change and long-term human behaviour in the Neotropics: an archaeological view from the Global South

V Scheinsohn, AS Muñoz… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of archaeology in discussions about how humans
have contributed to and dealt with climate change, especially in the long term. We suggest …

Weaving place‐based knowledge for culturally significant species in the age of genomics: Looking to the past to navigate the future

A Rayne, S Blair, M Dale, B Flack… - Evolutionary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Relationships with place provide critical context for characterizing biocultural diversity. Yet,
genetic and genomic studies are rarely informed by Indigenous or local knowledge …

The counteracting effects of anthropogenic speciation and extinction on mammal species richness and phylogenetic diversity

S Faurby, RØ Pedersen, JC Svenning… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Human activities are causing massive increases in extinction rates but might also lead
to drastic increases in speciation rates; for example, after human‐mediated spread of …

Guanaco colonisation of Tierra del Fuego Island from mainland Patagonia: Walked, swam, or by canoe?

WL Franklin - Geo: Geography and Environment, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Addressed here is the biogeographical‐vexing question of why the guanaco (Lama
guanicoe) is the only large mammal on the big island of Tierra del Fuego, answered by …

Response to comment on “Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands”

KM Hamley, JL Gill, KE Krasinski, DV Groff, BL Hall… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Hamley et al. previously presented multiple lines of evidence that people were present in the
Falkland Islands before Europeans and may have brought the now-extinct canid, Dusicyon …

Biological and geochemical proxies in sediment cores reveal shifts in marine predator population dynamics relative to historic anthropogenic exploitation and recent …

AK Kristan, K Maiti, KW McMahon, MA Dance… - Polar Biology, 2022 - Springer
Historical climate change and human exploitation are thought to have played important roles
in shaping population dynamics of sub-Antarctic marine predators, such as king penguins …

A pre-European archaeology in Malvinas/Falkland Islands? A review

AFJ Zangrando, LA Borrero - The Journal of Island and Coastal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The hypothesis of a pre-historic occupation of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands is reviewed.
The strength of the different lines of evidence presented by different authors is discussed …

Tracking Stone Age mariners: projecting into the past

SC Jett - Journal of Cultural Geography, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
It has become increasingly clear that, through the millennia, travel by water has been
generally safer, faster, and more economical than travel by land. Humans possessed …

Comment on “Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands”

TJ Clark, J Newton, ED Wakefield - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Stable isotopes from archaic Falkland Islands wolves (Dusicyon australis) indicate a high
trophic, marine diet. Hamley et al. argue that this is consistent with mutualism with Yaghan …

Mounted specimen of Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis) in Tūhura Otago Museum: X-ray imaging and additional historical information

NJ Rawlence, R Crane, E Burns… - Archives of Natural …, 2024 - euppublishing.com
The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792)), also known as the 'warrah', was
hunted to extinction around 1876–the first canid known to have been exterminated in …