Archaeological faunal remains provide key insights into human societies in the past,
alongside information on previous resource utilisation and exploitation of wildlife …

Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in
archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal archaeology have transformed …

El Niño has profound influences on ecosystem dynamics. However, we know little about
how it shapes vertebrate faunal community composition over centennial time scales, and …

Climatic change appears to influence major patterns in human history. However, confirming
the association between climatic events and adaptive human responses is not …

Accurately reconstructing past human population dynamics is critical for explaining major
patterns in the human past. Demand for demographic proxies has driven hopeful interest in …

Variation in late Holocene artiodactyl (eg, deer, pronghorn, bighorn sheep) hunting in
northern California has often been examined from a behavioral ecological perspective to …

How do human communities integrate within food webs? Studies characterizing the
historical flow of energy among people and local environments can yield important insights …

Previous research has documented declines in the abundance of high-return resources
including tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) over the past three millennia in central …

Near-time conservation palaeobiology uses palaeontological, archaeological and other
geohistorical records to study the late Quaternary transition of the biosphere from its pristine …

Dense layers of red abalone shells (“red abalone middens”) have been heavily studied
along the California coast for their implications for pre-contact subsistence, paleo-sea …