The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

D Degroot, KJ Anchukaitis, JE Tierney… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

[HTML][HTML] Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Refoyo-Martínez… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

[PDF][PDF] Point of departure and key concepts

R Ara Begum, R Lempert, A Elham, TA Benjaminsen… - 2022 - duo.uio.no
Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a …

The transmission of pottery technology among prehistoric European hunter-gatherers

E Dolbunova, A Lucquin, TR McLaughlin… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although
understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural …

Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation

F Yilmaz, C Karageorgiou, K Kim, P Pajic, K Scheer… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Previous studies suggested that the copy number of the human salivary amylase gene,
AMY1, correlates with starch-rich diets. However, evolutionary analyses are hampered by …

Socio-cultural practices may have affected sex differences in stature in Early Neolithic Europe

SL Cox, N Nicklisch, M Francken, J Wahl… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
The rules and structure of human culture impact health as much as genetics or environment.
To study these relationships, we combine ancient DNA (n= 230), skeletal metrics (n= 391) …

pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions

M Leonardi, EY Hallett, R Beyer, M Krapp… - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent development of continuous paleoclimatic reconstructions covering hundreds of
thousands of years paved the way for a large number of studies from disciplines ranging …

Long-term trends in human body size track regional variation in subsistence transitions and growth acceleration linked to dairying

JT Stock, E Pomeroy, CB Ruff… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Evidence for a reduction in stature between Mesolithic foragers and Neolithic farmers has
been interpreted as reflective of declines in health, however, our current understanding of …

Bayesian analyses of direct radiocarbon dates reveal geographic variations in the rate of rice farming dispersal in prehistoric Japan

ER Crema, CJ Stevens, S Shoda - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
The adoption of rice farming during the first millennium BC was a turning point in Japanese
prehistory, defining the subsequent cultural, linguistic, and genetic variation in the …

[HTML][HTML] Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago

J Dai, X Cai, J Jin, W Ge, Y Huang, W Wu, T Xia… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Crop dispersal has long been recognised as an important topic in agricultural archaeology
and food globalisation. The southern coastal region of China, including Fujian Province, is of …