National historical narratives generally leave out local histories of groups on the periphery of
society. This is accentuated in colonised settings where colonial powers promote the …

While agricultural origins have been recently revised in light of new genetic and
archaeological evidence, parallel synthesis of subsequent developments in agricultural …

Indigenous and local communities have developed a rich array of nature-based
technologies for water security built upon place-based knowledge-belief-practice systems …

It has been suggested that Iberian arrival in the Americas in 1492 and subsequent dramatic
depopulation led to forest regrowth that had global impacts on atmospheric CO2 …

The tropical forests of the Philippine Archipelago are some of the most threatened in the 21st
century. Among the most prominent threats are the introduction of new plant and animal …

Lidar datasets have been crucial for documenting the scale and nature of human ecosystem
engineering and land use. Automated analysis methods, which have been rising in …

Past human mountain settlement patterns and resource and high-altitude landscape
exploitation are underexplored research fields in archaeology. This study presents data …

This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding
of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung …

In the Andes, successive waves of Inka and Spanish imperialism reshaped local ecologies
and transformed agricultural practices between the 14th and 17th centuries. As the Inka (ca …

Studying why newly introduced cultivars fail to make inroads with local populations is
notoriously difficult, as these “rejected” crops often leave little or no physical evidence …