The accelerating pace of emerging zoonotic diseases in the twenty-first century has
motivated cross-disciplinary collaboration on One Health approaches, combining …

Over the last two decades, red ochre has played a pivotal role in discussions about the
cognitive and cultural evolution of early modern humans during the African Middle Stone …

Throughout the history of archaeology, researchers have evaluated human societies in
terms of systems and systems interactions. Complex systems theory (CST), which emerged …

Abrupt and rapid changes in human societies are among the most exciting population
phenomena. Human populations tend to show rapid expansions from low to high population …

Radiocarbon-date assemblages are commonly used as proxies for past human and
environmental phenomena. Prominent examples of target phenomena include past …

In the mid-1950s Western Desert of Australia, Aboriginal populations were in decline as
families left for ration depots, cattle stations, and mission settlements. In the context of …

The Italian peninsula offers an excellent case study within which to investigate long-term
regional demographic trends and their response to climate fluctuations, especially given its …

The overall trajectory for the human–environment interaction has been punctuated by
demographic boom-and-bust cycles, phases of growth/overshooting as well as of …

Explaining the factors that influence past dietary variation is critically important for
understanding changes in subsistence, health, and status in past societies; yet systematic …

Successive generations of hunter–gatherers of the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in Iberia
had to contend with rapidly changing environments and climatic conditions. This constrained …