Coprolites are a highly informative but still underutilized proxy for understanding past
environments, palaeodiets, and ancient human health. Here we provide a critical review of …

Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly
known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many human-driven bird extinctions …

Multi-proxy palaeoecological analyses of lake cores from two sites on northern Vancouver
Island reveal previously undocumented non-arboreal environments in the region during the …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

A uniform approach to ichnotaxonomy has been for the most part positively received by the
scientific community. We carry it further here, presenting a revised treatment of trace fossil …

Paleoethnobotanical perspectives are essential for understanding past lifeways yet continue
to be underrepresented in Paleoindian research. We present new archaeobotanical and …

To reconstruct past environmental changes, a range of indirect or proxy approaches can be
applied to Quaternary archives. Here, we review the complementary and novel insights that …

Ancient faecal material is becoming a highly valuable more frequently investigated proxy
with which to address a wide range of research questions. With advancing scientific …

We evaluate existing radiocarbon dates at sites containing Haskett stemmed projectile
points, present 12 new dates from 5 components at 4 sites, and model the age of Haskett …

The study of the peopling of the Americas has been transformed in the past decade by
astonishing progress in paleogenomic research. Ancient genomes now show that Native …