Lake sediments constitute natural archives of past environmental changes. Historically,
research has focused mainly on generating regional climate records, but records of human …

The Azores archipelago has provided significant clues to the ecological, biogeographic and
evolutionary knowledge of oceanic islands. Palaeoecological records are comparatively …

Purpose Climate change poses diverse, often fundamental, challenges to livelihoods of
island peoples. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that these challenges must be …

The human colonization of the Canary Islands represents the sole known expansion of
Berber communities into the Atlantic Ocean and is an example of marine dispersal carried …

Examining how past human populations responded to environmental and climatic changes
is a central focus of the historical sciences. The use of summed probability distributions …

Collapses of food producer societies are recurrent events in prehistory and have triggered a
growing concern for identifying the underlying causes of convergences/divergences across …

The updated inventory of the Latin American Pollen Database (LAPD) offers a wide range of
new insights. This paper presents a systematic compilation of palynological research in …

According to radiometric dates and the current state of research, the Balearic Islands were
not colonized by humans prior to c. 4420/4220 cal yr BP. Therefore, it is possible to know the …

Explaining the processes underlying the emergence of monument construction is a major
theme in contemporary anthropological archaeology, and recent studies have employed …

Livelihood challenges from future climate change confront coastal high-island communities
in the Pacific; most are currently inadequately prepared. The sustained inability of external …