Environmental DNA is increasingly being used to reconstruct past and present biodiversity
including from freshwater ecosystems. Macrophytes are especially good environmental …

Understanding how the Viking societies were impacted by past climate variability and how
they adapted to it has hardly been investigated. Here, we have carried out a new multi-proxy …

Assessing the relative importance of climate change and human activities is important in
developing sustainable management policies for regional land use. In this study, multiple …

Accurate estimates of changes in the composition and diversity of grassland ecosystems,
and an understanding of the mechanisms responsible, are essential for predicting future …

Abstract In the Northern Hemisphere, the mid-6th century was one of the coldest periods of
the last 2000 years, which was initiated by volcanic eruptions in 536 and 540 CE. Here, we …

The possibility of fingerprinting ancient organisms using the DNA they leave behind is a
revolution in our understanding of the past. Paleogenetic studies are rewriting our …

Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has become one of the standard applications in the
field of paleogenomics in recent years. It has been used for paleoenvironmental …

Charcoal from archaeological contexts differs from off-site pollen samples as it is mainly a
product of intentional human action. As such, analysis of charcoal from excavations is a …

Ancient environmental DNA retrieved from sedimentary records (sedaDNA) can complement
fossil-morphological approaches for characterizing Quaternary biodiversity changes. PCR …

This study explores how resource colonization for iron in central Sweden during the early
Iron Age may have affected the use of forest landscapes. Slag heap volume at iron …