Climate change poses threats to human health, safety, and survival via weather extremes
and climatic impacts on food yields, fresh water, infectious diseases, conflict, and …

The measure of the “Mayacene,” a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene that occurred from
c. 3000 to 1000 BP, comes from multiple Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records. We …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

This paper investigates the utility of stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in human dental
enamel to reveal patterns of breastfeeding and weaning in prehistory. Enamel preserves a …

The use of stable carbon isotopic analysis of bone apatite to reconstruct prehistoric diets is
hindered by the possibility of diagenetic alteration of carbonate during burial. We examine …

The ninth century collapse and abandonment of the Central Maya Lowlands in the Yucatán
peninsular region were the result of complex human–environment interactions. Large-scale …

Arthur Demarest brings the lost civilization of Maya to life by applying a holistic view to the
most recently discovered archaeological evidence. His theoretical interpretation …

The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice
of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and …

We have previously shown that records of the history of dietary supplementation and
weaning can be recovered from isotopic analyses of enamel carbonate in permanent human …

To study mitigation and adaptation to climate change, social scientists have drawn on
different approaches, particularly sociological approaches to the future and comparative …