The impacts of early ecological globalisation may have had profound economic and
environmental consequences for human settlements and animal populations. Here, we …

Scholars in many disciplines have used diverse methods and sources to establish that,
between the 15th and 18th centuries, a “Little Ice Age” considerably cooled Earth's climate …

We argue that the deep time perspectives offered by historical disciplines, such as
archaeology and history, provide important human-scale data about climate-adaptation over …

The importance of the Atlantic walrus ivory trade for the colonization, peak, and collapse of
the medieval Norse colonies on Greenland has been extensively debated. Nevertheless, no …

This paper contributes to recent studies exploring the longue durée of human impacts on
island landscapes, the impacts of climate and other environmental changes on human …

It's not so difficult, we tell our students, not so difficult that you should despair or forget
dreaming. There are others here in this room and beyond who will gather, humans and non …

Existing global volcanic radiative aerosol forcing estimates portray the period 700 to 1000 as
volcanically quiescent, void of major volcanic eruptions. However, this disagrees with …

Abstract Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us
to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common …

Archaeological records provide a unique source of direct data on long-term human-
environment interactions and samples of ecosystems affected by differing degrees of human …

Mediaeval walrus hunting in Iceland and Greenland—driven by Western European demand
for ivory and walrus hide ropes—has been identified as an important pre-modern example of …