Using a database of Australian archaeological radiocarbon dates (n= 2996), this paper
explores three key methodological issues associated with the use of summed probability …

As spatial technology has evolved and become integrated in to archaeology, we face a new
set of challenges posed by the sheer size and complexity of data we use and produce. In …

“Space-for-time” substitution is widely used in biodiversity modeling to infer past or future
trajectories of ecological systems from contemporary spatial patterns. However, the …

As the last habitable continent colonized by humans, the site of multiple domestication
hotspots, and the location of the largest Pleistocene megafaunal extinction, South America is …

The logic of using summed radiocarbon (14 C) calibrations (cumulative probability density
functions for large numbers of calibrated 14 C dates) as proxies for past populations rests on …

The human population has grown significantly since the onset of the Holocene about 12,000
y ago. Despite decades of research, the factors determining prehistoric population growth …

The severe cooling and the expansion of the ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum
(LGM), 27,000–19,000 y ago (27–19 ky ago) had a major impact on plant and animal …

Agriculture—specifically an intensification of the production of readily stored food and its
distribution—has supported an increase in the global human population throughout the …

Dozens of large mammals such as mammoth and mastodon disappeared in North America
at the end of the Pleistocene with climate change and “overkill” by human hunters the most …

The Holocene delivers a unique possibility to establish climatic stratigraphic boundaries
based on detailed chronostratigraphy reflected in various facies of continental sediments, in …